The misery of political energy cosmetics

Instead of the far more important renewables priority law, the GREENS are now also losing themselves in appeals to save energy and recycling nonsense.

Improving the power grids would be more helpful than the pointless CO2 tax, which will change nothing

Unfortunately, Green politicians in Austria have now also become “system people”. They tinker with side issues instead of passing central laws. This country still lacks a priority law FOR renewable energy, without which the energy transition is still massively hampered – yet a Green MP like Martin Litschauer still does not call for it.

Get support from Germany!

He does congratulate the EUROSOLAR winners, but avoids taking a position on this far more important core element of energy policy. I contacted him several times about this, and recommended getting support from German colleagues who implemented the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) so successfully with a priority law for renewables, but none of these suggestions are even heard.

I have enough practical experience: there are undoubtedly very fine Sunday speeches, but hardly anyone acts on them. Meanwhile the system errors are getting worse. Here is an example:

In my village this year we installed a ridiculously small 40 kWp PV system, and already nobody else in the village can build a PV system, because the local transformer is far too small. We were even restricted to 20 kW of feed-in capacity. Another farmer from the neighbouring village has still not had a grid connection for his PV system for a year. How expensive does fossil fuel have to become before you get a PV connection? This shows that the planned fuel price increase is complete nonsense as long as we cannot install PV systems en masse.

Counterproductive halt to expansion

But we have ONLY installed 200 m² of PV area; we still have 2,000 m² of free space for PV on our barn roofs alone, like countless other farmers. How are we supposed to achieve an energy transition if thousands of square metres of roofs are still free and nobody can build a system any more?

Only the rapid expansion of renewable energy helps

Petrol prices and heating oil and gas prices can rise indefinitely, and a CO2 tax can drive up the price of fossil fuels, but none of that will bring about an energy transition. The only thing that helps is the rapid expansion of renewables. This – sorry – farce by the Greens is almost unbearable: a deposit is introduced on plastic instead of switching to renewable raw materials to replace fossil plastics. The arguments “save energy”, “lower room temperature”, “drive economically” or now “recycle plastics” are pushed in exactly the wrong direction.

Holding on to fossil raw materials

All this only encourages holding on to fossil raw materials. Even if people think something is being saved, energy demand has increased dramatically since 1973, and never before has so much gas, coal and oil been consumed as today. DESPITE 50 years of saving energy.

100% renewable energy – NOW

If 100% renewables NOW had already been demanded back then, with a priority law FOR renewable energy, we would no longer be discussing fossil energy today. Even today the MOST FUNDAMENTAL thing is still not being demanded; instead there is just a bit of discussion around the periphery – carrying on as before, although the roof of the world is ablaze.

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