Energy – Munich – In 15 years only little funding for geothermal energy: criticism – Bavaria
Munich (dpa / lby) – In the past 15 years, the Free State has invested little in the promotion of domestic geothermal projects. This emerges from a response from the Ministry of Economics to a request from the Greens in the state parliament. The Greens criticize that the funding amounts are “measurable” – that’s an indictment.
According to the ministry, a little more than 4.3 million euros have been made available from the Bavarian energy research program for deep geothermal projects over the past 15 years. During this period, almost 14.6 million euros from the state budget were used to promote deep geothermal heat networks.
However, the ministry emphasizes in its response to the Greens’ query that geothermal energy studies are also fundamentally possible within the framework of another funding program for municipal energy use plans – but the individual main topics are not recorded here. “For this reason, it is not possible to give a specific indication of the amount of funding for geothermal energy over the past 15 years,” argues the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
“I already knew beforehand that this government doesn’t have much to do with geothermal energy. But these numbers of subsidies in the micro range speak a very special fossil language,” criticized the budget spokeswoman for the Greens, Claudia Köhler.
The green energy expert Martin Stümpfig spoke of an indictment. “In the first half of this year, Bavaria transferred more than 25 million euros a day for oil and gas to Putin and Russia, filling the war coffers well. That’s significantly more per day than for domestic geothermal energy in 15 years.” With the 14.6 million euros, the state government has created a little more than seven kilometers of network – that’s “a joke”. All other “mini amounts” listed are “once again just studies, reports and energy use plans”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/. “We don’t have a knowledge problem, we have an implementation problem,” he criticized.
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