Status: 08/10/2022 3:11 p.m
Bavaria’s state parliament president Aigner has criticized the CSU for its resistance to new power lines in Bavaria. She did not “get through” to the then Prime Minister Seehofer and former Home Minister Söder.
According to Ilse Aigner, President of the State Parliament, the CSU’s opposition to the construction of new power lines was a mistake. This is one of the reasons why Bavaria is “more dependent than others on nuclear power plants for electricity and there are bottlenecks in the lines from north to south,” said the head of the Upper Bavaria CSU to “Zeit Online”.
“I didn’t get through with facts”
Aigner emphasized that in 2015, as Bavarian Minister of Energy, she campaigned for the routes to the then Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and the then Minister of Home Affairs Markus Söder, both of whom were her colleagues, but were unable to get her way. “Unfortunately, I didn’t always get through with the facts,” said Aigner.
In March, Bavaria’s Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) also criticized the “political naivety” of Bavaria’s energy policy for many years. The business and industrial location of Bavaria cannot be converted completely to renewable energies in a hurry.
Against the background of the impending energy shortage in Bavaria, the Association of Bavarian Energy and Water Management recently blamed the CSU for the emergency: “In the last two decades, the Bavarian state government has always taken the easiest way when it comes to energy supply,” said Managing Director Detlef Fischer the newspapers of the editorial network Germany. “Nuclear power plants shut down, power lines described as monster structures, pumped storage power plants prevented and the expansion of wind power delayed.”
Aigner said that the criticism that Bavaria had overslept the expansion of renewable energies was “to a large extent” unjustified. “We are clearly at the forefront when it comes to expanding solar energy, hydroelectric power and biomass.”
Warning of discord between countries
At the same time, she warned against further escalating the dispute between the federal states in the energy crisis: “If you try to weaken the south, the north will soon run out of money too. You can calculate how much money comes from the south every year flows into the financial equalization of the federal states. Nobody can have an interest in weakening the industrial location in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.”