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Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and EnergyFederal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck is visiting Lusatia today to find out about various energy transition projects on the spot. Specifically, it is about projects that show the transformation towards renewable energies and hydrogen-capable power plants in the opencast mining region between Brandenburg and Saxony. Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck said: The energy transition in Lusatia is progressing step by step. The first hydrogen-capable power plants are built. Investments are made in PV systems, wind turbines or storage batteries. This brings opportunities for a region that is particularly badly affected by structural change and shows that Lusatia is shaping transformation very concretely with its own ideas and projects. The Confederation flanks and supports these plans and projects. This shows that if everyone works together, state and federal government and business, then the development of a climate-friendly energy supply and economy will succeed.” Minister Habeck will visit the four locations that Minister Habeck will be visiting in Lusatia today: In the Schwarze Pumpe industrial park in Spreetal/Spremberg handed over a grant notice of around 28.5 million euros for structural strengthening funds from the federal government for a real laboratory of the energy transition. An innovative hydrogen storage power plant is to be built here. Green hydrogen is produced with electricity from renewable energies. This allows energy to be stored and made available when needed. With the research project Reference Power Plant Lausitz (RefLau), the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, together with the states of Brandenburg and Saxony, is promoting the energy transition in Lusatia and at the same time supporting structural change in the lignite mining area in the guild location Renewable Industrial Park for wind, solar and battery storage, as well as for the construction of an H2-Ready gas power plant. Minister Habeck then talks to employees of the medium-sized company PEWO in Elsterheide. With its systems, PEWO is an important player in the field of building heating with concepts for heating and drinking water heating using regenerative energies. The last visit of the Lausitz Day is to the Klettwitz Energy Park. Below an existing wind farm on an old high dump for lignite mining, the large-scale photovoltaic system Energy Park Lausitz is being built in three construction phases, which is intended to generate up to 300 MW peak output. The project is a symbol of the structural change in the former burnt coal region and one of the largest solar projects in Germany. |
