Status: 07/26/2022 01:07 am
According to a media report, in view of the energy crisis, the FDP wants to keep the German nuclear power plants running until 2024 – otherwise there is a risk of energy shortages. So far, the last reactors should go offline at the end of the year.
In the debate about longer lifetimes for nuclear power plants, the FDP spoke out in favor of extending the lifetime until spring 2024.
“This is the period in which we are threatened with energy shortages. That’s why we have to be prepared for it,” said the energy policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Michael Kruse, of the “Bild”.
Piles should go offline at the end of 2022
The party is thus naming a concrete timeframe for its push to continue operating the three German nuclear power plants that are still in operation beyond December 31st. With their demand for an extension of the term, the Liberals had caused resentment in the traffic light coalition. SPD and especially the Greens are skeptical.
The FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr also pushed for an extension of the term. “We expect European solidarity for the winter,” he said. Germany must also show solidarity. “We must therefore use everything that can contribute to the production of electricity. Nuclear power plants are part of it,” he added.
Government wants to wait for stress test
The Union is also promoting the possibility of at least limited continued operation beyond the turn of the year. On Monday, the federal government referred to another stress test on the security of the power supply in the coming winter, the result of which it wanted to wait for.