AfD on climate and energy

The AfD opposes the expansion of wind power in the state and backs citizens' groups fighting it. In its view, wind turbines, large solar fields and energy crops harm nature. It also wants to end biofuel blending and rejects driving bans.

The AfD is against more wind turbines in the state. It says wind turbines and big solar fields harm nature. It wants no more ethanol in gasoline. It is also against driving bans.

The platform sees a conflict between climate protection and nature conservation and describes Baden-Württemberg as low in wind and densely populated. The AfD wants to work toward ending the blending of ethanol into gasoline and vegetable oils into diesel, arguing that this raises food prices. It regards pollutant limits from international bodies such as the WHO as a pretext for attacks on industry, combustion engines and farming. It rejects driving bans meant to promote electric vehicles and zero-pollution targets.

The AfD rejects climate protection as a policy goal because it does not regard human-made CO₂ emissions as the cause of climate change. Instead it wants to focus on adapting to climate changes, scrap the carbon levy, and cut the energy tax to the minimum.

The AfD does not want climate protection. It says humans are not the cause of climate change. It only wants to protect people from the effects. The tax on CO₂ should go. This should make energy cheaper.

According to the platform, climate change is a natural process, there is no climate crisis, and Germany's 1.5 percent share of global CO₂ emissions has no effect. It says the energy transition has caused severe economic damage. Through the Bundesrat (the chamber of the states), the AfD wants to abolish the carbon levy and cut the energy tax to the minimum allowed under EU law. Price increases on fossil fuels through taxes and levies should be reversed. The platform puts the share of taxes and levies in energy costs at 60 to 70 percent.

The AfD wants to keep all coal-fired power plants, build new ones, and return to nuclear power as quickly as possible. It argues that Baden-Württemberg now generates only half of its electricity itself and that industry needs cheap, reliable energy.

The AfD wants to keep coal power plants and build new ones. It also wants to use nuclear power again. Two shut-down nuclear plants in the state should run again. This should make power safe and cheap.

The dismantling of the Neckarwestheim 2 and Philippsburg 2 nuclear plants should stop immediately and both should be made operational again; the platform points to existing permits and construction plans. The AfD regards hard coal as a cheap commodity that will be available worldwide for a long time. It describes nuclear power as nearly emission-free and especially safe. With more baseload power plants the party wants to prevent blackouts and shutoffs; it rejects smart grids as a strategy because they would mean temporarily switching off equipment.

The AfD considers further wind power expansion in Baden-Württemberg pointless and wants to end subsidies for wind and solar power. It also rejects funding for hydrogen and deep geothermal energy; energy subsidy programs in general should be reviewed and abolished where possible.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in forests. Wind turbines should stand farther from homes. The state should stop paying money for wind and solar power. There should be no funding for hydrogen or deep geothermal energy either.

Wind turbines should not be built in forests or protected landscapes and should keep a greater distance from homes than now. The AfD cites low yields in the state, unreliable power supply, and harm to people and nature. It does not reject solar power in principle but points to seasonal swings and high investment and land needs. It considers the subsidized shift to a hydrogen economy uneconomical. For building damage caused by deep geothermal drilling, the state government should bear the risk.

The AfD wants to scrap the Heizungsgesetz (heating law) entirely and lift obligations to use district heating. It also rejects forcing transport to go electric, arguing that this would require doubling the electricity infrastructure.

The AfD wants to abolish the heating law. No one should be forced to use district heating. The AfD also wants no pressure to switch to electric cars. It says the power grids and storage for that are missing.

Both the requirements for municipalities and the mandatory connection of homeowners to district heating should be dropped. On transport, the platform says fuels account for one fifth of primary energy use and replacing them would need huge investments in grids and batteries. It says storage technology on the necessary scale does not currently exist. Bans on conventional energy should be lifted as far as is sensible.