Leipzig (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) sees the federal states as insufficiently informed about the energy shortage. "We hardly get any data and information from the federal government," he said in an interview with the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" (Monday). The federal states are used to being provided with processes, forecasts and key figures on a daily basis from the corona crisis management, on the basis of which one could work, plan and prepare. "At a comparable level, we are currently not getting anything about the energy shortage."
According to Schuster, the Ministry of the Interior is also making preparations for the situation in which the federal government cannot ward off such a situation. "Our job is to adapt to different scenarios," he said. "There could be more meetings, prioritization of our critical infrastructure may become necessary, maybe we have to offer lounges for people who can no longer ensure their care adequately, and so on."
According to Schuster, the publicly available data, including information on the filling levels of the gas storage tanks, is not sufficient. "I believe that the Federal Network Agency could already say very precisely what individual scenarios look like." So he would like to know much more precisely which gas reserves and potential courses one really has to assume from autumn. "What matters now is concerted action and, above all, intensive and serious crisis communication." To this end, the crisis team in the Chancellery, which existed during the Corona crisis, should be reactivated. "Turning down the heating and saving showerheads are political recommendations that tend to unsettle people because of their triviality."
