Energy – Hanover – Lies: Accelerated procedures needed for LNG terminals – Economy
Hanover/Berlin (dpa) – Lower Saxony’s Energy Minister Olaf Lies sees the federal government’s planned acceleration law for LNG terminals as a “very good basis” for the realization of the project. “We now have to show that we can quickly solve the energy policy grip by Russia with a new Germany speed,” said the SPD politician of the German Press Agency on Saturday. Accelerated procedures are needed to bring about a turning point in the energy supply as well.
However, Lies also emphasized that an acceleration law should not fall short. Fast solutions are needed for the floating LNG import terminals, as well as for the fixed terminals on land and the connected infrastructure. The floating import terminals, one of which is to be built in Wilhelmshaven, remained an interim solution. “And for this transition to be short, we must not do one thing and then the other. We have to start with the infrastructure for green gas in parallel and therefore also implement the stationary terminals with the corresponding infrastructure with the accelerated procedures,” said Lies.
The federal government is planning a law that should speed up the construction of import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). In exchange with the environment and justice ministries, the Federal Ministry of Economics has developed a draft law for the acceleration of LNG projects in northern Germany and submitted it to the departmental vote, as the German Press Agency from circles of the Ministry of Economics created.
Lies, the acceleration law for the LNG expansion now also wants to set the standard for the acceleration laws that are still outstanding, said, for example, for the expansion of wind energy on land and at sea as well as for photovoltaics and the required power grids. “The current situation with the acceleration packages can also be a kind of springboard for climate protection and the associated energy transition.”
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