AfD on climate and energy

The AfD wants to stop building further wind turbines in North Rhine-Westphalia. It justifies this with protecting the landscape, nature and tourism.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in North Rhine-Westphalia. It says wind turbines ruin the look of the landscape. That scares off tourists. The state should become nicer for visitors.

The platform links the demand to the goal of making the state more attractive to tourists. It includes active protection of the environment and homeland, preserving the cultural landscape, and good hiking and cycling routes. The AfD describes wind turbines as industrial installations that deter visitors.

The AfD opposes the energy transition and wants to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and scrap carbon taxes and emissions trading without replacement. It doubts that humans cause the warming and favors adaptation over cutting CO2.

The AfD is against the energy transition. Germany should leave the Paris climate agreement. Charges on CO2 should end. The AfD says the warming is natural. People should adapt to the climate.

According to the platform, the warming is within the range of natural variation, and the goal of zero emissions endangers the economy and society. Germany would leave all public and private climate protection organizations and stop supporting them. The AfD calls for an open debate on the causes of climate change and the effects of decarbonization. It rejects the federal hydrogen strategy because of high energy losses and wants subsidies for hydrogen production ended immediately.

The AfD wants to stop subsidizing power from wind, solar, biogas, and wood and rejects the EU's Green Deal. Wind turbines would need large minimum distances and residents' approval, and electricity prices would drop by the amount of the EEG surcharge (renewable energy levy).

The AfD wants no more state money for wind power, solar power, and biogas. Wind turbines should stand far from homes. The distance should be at least 2.5 kilometers. There should be no wind turbines in forests. Electricity should get cheaper.

Sites for wind turbines would be designated only with broad approval from those affected; the distance to homes would be ten times the turbine's height and at least 2.5 kilometers. The AfD wants no wind or solar installations in forests and protected areas. Older plants whose 20 years of support have ended would compete without subsidies or feed-in priority, and operators alone would pay for dismantling. Farmland used for energy crops would return to food production or be restored to nature. In the short term, the party demands a full per-citizen accounting of decarbonization costs for NRW and electricity prices without the EEG surcharge.

The AfD wants an energy mix in which coal and nuclear power cover baseload and natural gas adds flexibility. The remaining nuclear plants would run longer, and nuclear research would be rebuilt.

The AfD wants to keep power from coal, gas, and nuclear plants. The last nuclear plants should run longer. Germany should do nuclear research again. The AfD says this keeps power secure and cheap.

Nuclear plant lifetimes would depend on technical service life and economics. Reusable residues would be stored retrievably; the AfD wants to end the search for a final repository other than Gorleben. It welcomes the European Commission's plan to classify nuclear energy as sustainable and considers new-generation reactors safe and suited to producing synthetic fuels. Nuclear research centers would be reestablished, and Germany would take a large part in international reactor projects.