Baden-Württemberg: Almost three percent of the state buildings have a solar system

From the university clinic to the monastery - the country has around 8,000 buildings.

Baden-Württemberg: Almost three percent of the state buildings have a solar system

From the university clinic to the monastery - the country has around 8,000 buildings. When it comes to climate protection, you should be a role model there, the SPD thinks. The progress in terms of solar systems on roofs is much too slow.

Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The number of solar systems on the roofs of state buildings has recently increased - but still less than three percent of the buildings are equipped with a photovoltaic system. This emerges from the response of the Ministry of Finance in Stuttgart to a small request from the SPD environmental expert Gernot Gruber, which is available to the German Press Agency. Solar systems are currently installed on 222 of a total of 8,000 state roofs. That means an increase from 2.1 to 2.8 percent within one year, Gruber explained. The proportion of residential buildings in the country is 13.2 percent.

"The country must set a good example and not lag behind," criticized Gruber. "In the state government, there is simply too much of a gap between what is expected and what is likely to be reality."

In its reply, the Ministry of Finance also announced that the photovoltaic area on state properties should be increased to at least 600,000 square meters by 2030. For the SPD environmental expert Gruber that would be a step backwards, after all Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann announced in his government statement last November that by 2030 all state-owned buildings would have to have a solar system on the roof.

But did he really mean everyone? Of course, this only applies to all the buildings where this is also possible, said a spokesman for Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz (Greens). This is difficult on certain historic buildings, for example. This also applies to buildings with a helipad, for example at the university clinics in the country - and it simply doesn't make sense on roofs that are only in the shade. According to current calculations, the 600,000 square meters is the maximum possible. By 2026, the photovoltaic area should be at least 250,000 square meters.