Federal government accepts natural gas for the transition – energy industry is relieved

Berlin The German government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source. At the same time, she supports a corresponding classification of gas as a bridging solution, but does not consider the implementation planned so far to be acceptable.

This emerges from the German statement on the so-called taxonomy, which is available to the Handelsblatt. It was sent to the Commission on Friday evening.

While there was early agreement on the classification of nuclear energy in Berlin, there was a struggle to the end about the positioning of gas, according to reports from those close to the government. The statement now states that the use of natural gas is not sustainable in the long term.

“However, for the federal government, fossil gas fuel in ultra-modern and efficient gas-fired power plants forms a bridge for a limited transitional period – until the transition to an energy sector based on renewable energies,” says the statement.