“Moorburg’s lessons”

The Moorburg ruling by the European Court of Justice probably implies that “Germany’s most important economic hub” is powered by a plant which is operated illegally, writes Olaf Preuß in a commentary in Die Welt. If the plant has to go offline for legal or economic reasons, Hamburg would have to be supplied with lignite or nuclear power. But no established political party in Hamburg is prepared to stick up for the plant, writes Preuß. The local government coalition of Social Democrats and Greens hopes to win time so Hamburg can be supplied mainly with wind power in the coming decade, according to Preuß. “No one considers any longer the possibility of integrating Moorburg in an ecologically optimised way into the structural transformation of the German energy system.”

Read the Welt commentary in German here.