Federal Chancellor Simonetta Sommaruga on the dam Lac de Vieux Emoson at the inauguration of the pumped power station in Nantes-des-Drans.
Photo: Laurent Gillieron (Keystone)
The contrast couldn’t be greater. In Germany you can see the Minister of Economy Robert Habeck on all channels. Thursday night on ZDF, Friday in Spiegel interview. It always comes down to the big gap in the gas supply. If Russian gas supplies remain as low as they are now, the country will face gas shortages. “It’s definitely going to be tight in the winter,” Habek said. With our neighbors, gas is the lifeblood of the economy, and in winter, the lifeblood of people who don’t want to freeze. Green Vice Chancellor and Senior Climate Change Minister Habek is doing his best to mitigate this, even restarting coal-fired power plants, not least to produce electricity with them in the winter. Then when the sun has too little power for photovoltaic cells, or when there’s a moment of lull and the wind farms don’t provide enough.
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In Germany, energy purchases are a top priority, but neither Federal Chancellor Simonetta Sommaruga nor members of Parliament are concerned in Bern. catastrophic miscalculation.