These are the consequences of the decision in the nuclear power plant dispute

Berlin After Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) gave his word of power, everything should now happen very quickly: the Federal Cabinet is to decide on the amendment to the Atomic Energy Act as early as Wednesday. On Tuesday, the energy efficiency law announced by Scholz went into the departmental vote, as did an amendment to the coal phase-out law. The latter seals a deal between the federal government and RWE, according to which the group will generate more lignite for the short term, but will phase out lignite as early as 2030.

Referring to his authority to issue guidelines, Scholz informed Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens), Federal Minister for the Environment Steffi Lemke (Greens) and Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner (FDP) in a letter on Monday that all three nuclear power plants that were still active in Germany would be closed by April 15, 2023 keep walking Actually, they should have stopped operating at the end of the year. With the unusual power, Scholz ended a week-long dispute between the Greens and the FDP about the appropriate response to the energy crisis.