In the federal government, a conflict on climate and energy policy is emerging between the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. According to the scramble of keeping nuclear power in the EU, this time the question is whether the separation, pressing and use of carbon dioxide (CO2) should also be used for the decarbonization of natural gas. Economic and Energy Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU) would like to keep this possibility open, as is also the case in the coalition agreement. The Ministry of Environment and Climate Protection of the Department of Department by Department of Department Carsten Scheider (SPD) is against it. Schneider’s Secretary of Climate State Jochen Flasbarth (SPD) said the F.A.Z., which in English “Carbon Capture and Storage” and “Carbon Capture and Utilization” (CCS and CCU) were allowed in the future. However, they should not be used in gas power plants. “The discussion about CCS must not stir up false hopes and lead to using fossil energies longer,” said Flasbarth. “In particular for economic reasons, CCS for gas power plants will not be considered,” he said. “The costs are in no relation to the benefits, which is also clear to all realists in the energy industry.” In contrast to this interpretation, important instrument for the storage of residual emissions, the coalition agreement and the rich recently decided in the federal cabinet to “law on permanent storage and transporting carbon dioxide” (KSPG), CCS usage in gas power as well as The production “blue” hydrogen from natural gas. Rich template only describes the CO2 separation in coal-fired power plants as “factually excluded”. Before that, there had already been upset between the two ministries as to whether or not the nuclear power in the EU as a “sustainable” energy source. Rich is not for Schneider, on the other hand, Flasbarth said to the CCS that this was an important instrument to store remaining emissions that could not be avoided, for example from the cement industry. The method is also useful for negative emissions, i.e. for pulling and pressing CO2 out of the air. The procedure is suitable for “no longer, but no less: CCS is above all not a technology that should be used instead of renewable energies”. The new possibilities are very energy and cost-intensive, “why their application should remain limited to a few, technically unavoidable emissions, for example in cement and chemical sectors. As far as the gas power plants are concerned, “a not inconsiderable part of the emissions in the gas power plants cannot be technically separated and must therefore be compensated for more and more expensive emission certificates”. Flasbarth insisted on a course in climate protection based on the green electricity: “Our goal remains the consistent avoidance of greenhouse gases, especially through the use of renewable energies.” The Federal Ministry of Economics replied the criticism on Thursday. “With a view to the open technology”, it is important to “not exclude the use of the technology from the outset,” the Ministry report. In practice, it will be a question of economy as to whether CCS is used or not. An old conflict tears again. Energy economist Andreas Löschel shares the analysis of the Ministry of the Environment that CCS for gas power plants in Germany is currently not economical. “This is probably nothing that has real implementation opportunities,” said the Bochum researcher, who chairs the Federal Government’s expert commission for monitoring the energy transition. He pointed out that most gas power plants in Germany should not run permanently in the future, but only if the renewables do not produce enough electricity. This complicates the economy for carbon storage, which would be associated with high initial investments. According to Löschel, these problems with profitability also speak against the argument that the possibility of CCS in gas power plants stands in the way of ecostrom expansion. The possibility of legally prohibiting this technological solution appears in a different light. “I would be rather reserved,” said Löschel. More on the subject of further advertisements with Flasbarths compared to gas applications of CCS, an old conflict from the former government is reviving again. Rich predecessor Robert Habeck (Greens) had already brought a similar advance to the current minister in the traffic light government of the SPD, Greens and FDP. However, the amendment had failed in the Bundestag because of the SPD and the Greens’ own government factions. The disagreement was already that Habeck’s new regulation not only wanted to open CCS and CCU for inevitable CO2 emissions, but also for gas power plants and blue hydrogen. In the extent that the extent is permitted in the future, it will only be determined in the upcoming power plant strategy. The area of application, which is sensible for CCS, only affects “around four to five percent of all German climate -damaging emissions”, it was said from the environment of the Ministry of the Environment. On the other hand, the coalition agreement is clear, there is: “We will immediately decide on a legislative package, which enables the separation, transport, use and storage of carbon dioxide, especially for difficult to avoid emissions from the industrial sector and for gas power plants.” The Environment Ministry also announced on Thursday to prepare the CC law on the CO2 storage in the sea floor and To have initiated export. It is about designs on the High Sea Introduction Act and the ratification of changes in the so-called London protocol to cross-border CO2 deliveries.
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