08/08/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews
Germany's power plant park is to be expanded by 3,000 MW each of bioenergy power plants and storage. This was announced by the Federal Ministry of Economics.
The German government aims to tender 3,000 MW each of bioenergy power and storage in Germany as part of its power plant strategy. This was stated by Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) in Hamburg on the sidelines of his presentation of plans for new hydrogen power plants until 2035. In this way, the Minister wants to achieve the goal of completely decarbonizing the German power plant fleet. Details are to follow in the fall.
With the total of 6,000 MW, Habeck completes his planned power plant strategy for Germany. "In total, that will be just under 30 GW of additional capacity," the minister said. "These are made up of just under 9 GW of pure hydrogen power plants, 15 GW for power plants that can initially still take natural gas and then have to be converted to hydrogen by 2035. And then we have smaller components of biomethane or biomass power plants and storage, about 3 GW each."
As a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Economics confirmed, this completes the list of new power plants planned for Germany that will serve as controllable loads in the future. Their task is to replace the existing power plants based on coal and natural gas and thus to completely decarbonize the domestic energy supply. This is to be done by 2035. "If the changeover succeeds more quickly, then I am pleased, because the sooner we can take out the fossils," said Habeck.
The new power plants are to step in when there is a need and an undersupply of wind and solar power. For this purpose, the government plans from 2024 tenders similar to those for offshore wind energy.
Author: Oliver Ristau
