AfD on climate and energy

The AfD wants to abolish energy efficiency requirements and levies for buildings, which it considers excessive. Besides raw material prices and interest rates, the program names mandatory solar roofs and energy retrofits as drivers of construction costs.

Building is very expensive in Hamburg. The AfD blames rules on saving energy, too. One rule says new roofs need solar panels. The AfD wants to get rid of these rules.

The program lists rising raw material prices, interest rates and supply bottlenecks as cost drivers. In its view, the solar roof mandate and energy retrofit requirements add to these. These requirements and levies are to be scrapped to make building affordable again.

The AfD wants to reverse the coal phase-out and bring all available power plants back online immediately. The Moorburg plant should run on coal again instead of being turned into a hydrogen project. The party cites supply security and independence from imports.

Germany plans to stop using coal. The AfD wants to stop that plan. All power plants should run again right away. The Moorburg plant should burn coal again. The AfD rejects a hydrogen project there.

The program rejects climate policy based on sacrifice and bans and points to Germany's two percent share of global CO2 emissions. In the AfD's view, phasing out nuclear and coal makes Germany dependent on imports. Moorburg should return as a modern, clean coal plant. The aging Wedel plant should be replaced without delay.

Citizens and property owners should be free to choose between district heating, oil, gas and heat pumps. The AfD rejects the heating law pushed by the "traffic light" coalition, which it describes as a heating ban and a de facto heat pump mandate.

Everyone should choose how to heat their home. It can be gas, oil, district heating or a heat pump. The AfD opposes the heating law. It says the law forces people to use heat pumps.

District heating, oil and gas heating and heat pumps are named as equal options. The program opposes the heating ban of the "traffic light" government. It rejects the resulting obligation to install heat pumps.

The AfD wants to halt construction of new wind turbines in Hamburg. Existing turbines should not be replaced when their permits expire. It cites rising electricity prices, grid risks and the protection of birds and bats.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in Hamburg. Old turbines should not be replaced later. The AfD says wind power makes electricity more expensive. It also says turbines harm birds and bats.

The program considers wind and solar power weather-dependent and unable to provide baseload. In the AfD's view, shutting turbines down during bird or bat flights does not protect the animals enough. Once permits expire, concrete foundations should be removed and access roads restored to nature. Operators should bear these costs.

The AfD considers the nuclear phase-out a mistake and wants new nuclear power plants built in Germany again. Hamburg itself is not a suitable site, but it should support research on reactors. In the program's view, this would lower energy prices and stabilize the grid.

Germany shut down its nuclear plants. The AfD thinks that was wrong. New nuclear plants should be built again. But not in Hamburg. Hamburg should help with research.

The program sees clearly more advantages than drawbacks in nuclear power. It does not consider a city of millions like Hamburg a suitable plant location. Hamburg should contribute to research and development of reactors. The expected results are lower energy prices and greater grid stability.