to presented to The coal Commission a comprehensive Plan for how the exit from the coal power and transition to renewable energies will be designed. Here are the main points in the Overview.
the end of the electricity generation from coal
The Commission empfhielt as the completion date of the end of the year 2038. An “opening clause”, to the environmental associations: If the electricity market, labour market and economic situation to give it, it can be preferred to the exit date, in agreement with the operators to 2035. 2032 this is to be checked. Also in 2023, 2026 and 2029 of the exit plan with a view to security of supply, electricity prices, Jobs and climate goals to the test.
Quicker Shutdown of the coal-fired power plants
the end of 2017, coal-fired power plants with a net power output of 42.6 gigawatts (GW) were on the market, and a Reserve. After you go anyway from the network. Now it should go faster: by 2030, a maximum of 17 GW to be on the market, 2038 is the latest, final. By 2022, a total of 12.5 GW will go from the network. Special value a protector of the climate, including that of 3.1 GW of brown coal are, in addition, brown coal – fired power plants emit many greenhouse gases, and will not be pushed by the CO2 prices in the EU, as quickly from the market. What power plants will be shut down, not the Commission. To negotiate the policy with the operators.
to compensate for rising electricity prices
The Commission proposes that the Federal government relieves individuals and businesses from 2023 by rising electricity prices. It proposes a grant to the network charges, which are part of the electricity bill and expects a cost of two billion euros per year. New levies or taxes should not exist. In addition, the Federal energy-intensive companies, who have nothing, because they are not exempt from network charges. The so-called electricity price compensation, a further subsidy for energy-intensive companies will exist in 2030.
The coal-fired power plants to be more speedily than previously provided can be switched off.
billion for the reconstruction of the economy
The Federal government should invest in infrastructure, public authorities and research to settle and companies to promote. The measures should be enshrined by law – the end of April, it should be vertices. A state contract is to bind the future the Federal governments. The Commission estimates 1.3 billion euros per year over 20 years. The countries will be allocated € 700 million per year, which are not tied to projects. Adds to the improvement of the traffic a “special financing program” and a program to 2021 in the amount of 1.5 billion euros already planned in the Federal budget by 2021.
compensation for brown-coal operators
The Commission recommends that, to achieve the decommissioning activities for brown coal-fired power plants with the operators of a “mutual agreement”. This should include both compensation for the operator as well as rules on socially responsible design. A tender model, it is conceivable. “The Commission considers that in the negotiations with the operators of brown coal-fired power plants, the entire design is governed by 2030, by mutual agreement.” If the to 30. June 2020 does not work, the Commission recommends a regulatory solution with compensation payments “within the framework of legal requirements”.
Adjustment allowance for Employees
For Employees in the coal industry 58 years of age, the need to bridge the time until retirement, there shall be an adjustment of money as well as a balance of pension loss. The cost is estimated to be up to five billion euros, which could carry the employer and the state together. Operations-related redundancies should be prevented. For younger workers, education and training, placement in other Jobs and assistance for loss of Wages.
hambach forest and the villages
A forest at the open pit mine of Hambach has become the Symbol of the Anti-coal movement. In the report, the Commission believe it is “desirable” that the hambach Fort remains – RWE wants to leave him for the brown coal mining roden, a court had stopped. In addition, to build on the days in the West and East villages from the coal excavator under threat. The Commission has asked the state governments to have a “dialogue” with the Affected and the resettlement, “in order to avoid social and economic hardship”.
source: Reuters
