Leag warns: New power plant safety law puts East Germany at a disadvantage!

Leag warns: New power plant safety law puts East Germany at a disadvantage!

The energy giant Leag is sounding the alarm and sharply criticizing the federal government's latest plans for a new power plant safety law! From Leag's perspective, urgently needed power plant projects in East Germany are being literally discriminated against. The company published this shocking sign on Thursday and caused waves of outrage.

The Federal Ministry of Economics has big plans: funding new gas power plants or modernizing existing plants to ensure that the lights don't go out even if there is insufficient renewable electricity demand! But the fingers are pointed at the subtle but explosive regulation that primarily favors the “network south”. This means that federal states like Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria are at the top of the list, while the northeast remains in the shadows - this could have catastrophic consequences for structural change efforts in the coal regions!

The controversial “South Bonus”

Leag CEO Adi Roesch particularly highlights a scandalous “Southern bonus” that could ensure that two thirds of all new power plants are built in the old federal states! “If this disadvantage remained, the progress we have made in structural change would be in acute danger,” said Roesch. This inequality, hidden in the draft law, could lead to a dominant power generation landscape in the south, endangering the desired balance across the country.

The federal government is also planning to switch from natural gas to climate-friendly hydrogen. However, the time frame for this is more than questionable. Leag argues that setting a fixed transition date is unrealistic; a flexible transition period would be far more beneficial. The company has committed to building gas-fired power plants at all of its coal-fired power plant sites, which will later be converted to hydrogen. The challenges are enormous and it remains to be seen how events will develop!