Source: Energy & Management Powernews, July 27, 2022
The Free State has given itself the sharpest zero emissions target among the states at the time. However, he is not on track with the implementation, according to a study for the VBEW.
Bavaria is not on track with any of eight selected indicators for the energy transition. This "sobering" conclusion from an updated commissioned study by the Research Center for Energy Economics (FfE) has drawn the Association of the Bavarian Energy and Water Industry (VBEW) on July 26. In September 2021 the federation had published first results, now it concerned a view of the entire year 2021.
"If we continue in such a way as before, the climaticneutral Bavaria is up to 2040 an illusion", warned VBEW managing director Detlef Fischer. There must be "a huge jolt" through the state. The state government must be just as "over-ambitious" with the conversion as with the goals, demanded Fischer.
Concretely the Free State must exert "more pressure on its municipalities and citizens", in order to become actually climaticneutral 2040 - five years earlier, than that the federation decrees itself. Until then, every missed target would accumulate as a burden for the remaining time. In the energy sector the legally anchored climatic neutrality in 18 years is "still to be reached", if the consumption is "clearly" pressed and the addition of renewable ones is forced.
Fischer announced for the turn of the year a further update of the FfE study on the level of the Bavarian districts, in each case with concrete recommendations for action.
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The eight energy transition indicators
In the following eight energy transition indicators, Bavaria has achieved necessary changes for the 2040 climate target between 0% and 50% in 2021 in the view of FfE:
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