One more step for the German energy transition. To keep its CO2 reduction commitments, Germany has set a goal even more ambitious than the European Union.
Thus, Berlin is committed to a 40% reduction by 2020 its emissions of greenhouse gases, compared to 1990. This means generate at least 78 million additional tons of dioxide emissions reductions carbon.
To achieve this, the Government is building on a 25 to 30 million tonnes from energy efficiency measures, such as tax incentives for the renovation of the housing stock to save heating and hot water.
But the electricity sector is also put to use and it mainly affects power plants that run on coal and its derivatives. Coal accounts for about a third of CO2 emissions in Germany. The country is the biggest polluter of the European Union
Obligation is against coal plant operators to reduce their emissions by at least 22 million tonnes, equivalent to the closure of at least eight plants.
In Germany, coal accounts for 45% of electricity production, against 25% for renewable energy. The country has some 500 plants of this type, on average each released into the atmosphere between one million and 7 million tonnes of CO2 per year, totaling some 341 million tons each year.
This is for the German government to prevent a craze for coal while Germany has decided, following the Fukushima accident was in 2011, to close its 17 nuclear power plants by 2022, and this without penalizing employment and exports.
The country is set to 2050 for renewable energy covers 80% of electricity consumption and 50% of energy needs. A challenge given that the German consumer pays his electricity bill three times more expensive than its French neighbor.
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