Munich (dpa / lby) - The request of the Bavarian Council of Ministers to subject the energy supply to a stress test in January makes no sense in the opinion of the Greens. "A stress test in January would be as meaningful as a harvest forecast for the summer - simply nonsense," said parliamentary group leader Ludwig Hartmann of the German Press Agency in Munich. There must be another stress test, but only if it makes sense.
Last week, the Bavarian Council of Ministers decided to call on the federal government to "carry out a second, more stringent stress test by the transmission system operators". The background to the demand is the growing concern about the energy supply in Germany and the intended end of the lifetime of the nuclear power plants in April.
For the stress test, which has been routinely carried out by the network operators for years for the following winter, all the basics were missing, said Hartmann. "We don't know how full or empty the gas storage facilities will be by the end of this year."
Also, no one can say how the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will develop, whether coal reserves could be built up at the coal-fired power plants, which plants with renewable energies would be put into operation, how the network expansion is progressing and how the French nuclear power plants will be next winter will be ordered.
The Bundesrat application from the Bavarian state government is also working with incorrect numbers, according to Hartmann. It is claimed that the French nuclear power plants are producing less power than in the most critical scenario of the last stress test, namely less than 33 to 35 gigawatts. "The fact is that on the day that the Bavarian cabinet decided on the application, French nuclear power plants were already operating with a capacity of more than 40 GW, and the trend is rising."
