WWhen Udo Steinacker sits at the dining table in his living room, he sees wide meadows and fields outside, trees behind them and just a single wind turbine in the distance. However, there will be more of this soon. 13 of them will soon be standing on that part of the community that the residents call the hill, after all it is 25 meters above the sea.
In the community of Waabs, located directly on the Baltic Sea, around 1,500 residents are spread across three villages and eight larger estates. Steinacker (CDU) is mayor here. He can complain for a long time about the energy transition. It is too expensive, ideological, cumbersome, chaotic, poorly communicated and not properly calculated, he says. More and more wind turbines are being built. “But where should the electricity go?” There is a lack of infrastructure for this and storage is not in sight for decades. Shutting down the nuclear power plants was a “pure waste of money”.