Electricity prices have risen dramatically in Germany since the war in Ukraine began with the invasion of the Russian army in 2022.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has categorically ruled out building new nuclear power plants, despite calls in parliament to change Berlin’s policy on the issue.
Those calling for new nuclear power plants to be built are forgetting that it takes up to 15 years and costs 15 to 20 billion euros to build each one, the head of the German government said.
They would be completed “in the late 1930s” and produce power “at prices two to three times what we pay for energy from renewable sources”, Mr Solz said during a Social Democrats campaign event in Munich, Bavaria. .
Bavarian voters will go to the polls on October 8 to elect the state’s new government.
Electricity prices have risen dramatically in Germany since the war in Ukraine began with the invasion of Russia’s military in 2022. Berlin has been quick to look for alternative sources of supply, abandoning cheap Russian energy sources. Moscow has sharply cut gas supplies and governments in Europe are competing for other sources.
The main opposition, the Christian Democrats (CDU), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the business-friendly coalition Free Democrats (FDP) have called for the use of existing nuclear power plants to be extended, even though the last stations shut down their reactors earlier this year.
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Zender has said he wants a new reactor to be built there to conduct research into nuclear fusion.
Source :Skai
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