Energy transition with citizen ownership and climate adaptation
The BSW wants public funding for renewable energy and citizen participation in it, so that profits from power generation reach residents. In the party's view, climate protection must pay off rather than make life more expensive; it adds measures for adapting to climate change.
The BSW wants to support power from sun and wind. Citizens should own a share of these plants. That way they get part of the profits. Climate protection should not make life more expensive. The state should also protect people better from heat and floods.
Support should go to projects such as citizen-owned wind and solar parks in towns and rural areas. Climate and environmental protection should come mainly from engineering innovations that can be put in place quickly. The BSW rejects bureaucracy that is justified by climate protection and that the program regards as excessive. For adaptation it lists flood protection, growing drought-resistant crops, and heat protection and cooling in hospitals and care homes. The program also calls global warming one of the biggest problems of our time.
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„Wir wollen öffentliche Förderung und Bürgerbeteiligung bei der Energiewende hin zu erneuerbaren Energien, z. B. Solarparks in Stadt und Land.“Translation: We want public funding and citizen participation in the energy transition toward renewable energy, e.g. solar parks in town and country.
Placement
- Economyleaning more state
Public funding and citizen ownership of energy plants expand the public role compared with today.
- Climatebalanced
The point supports expanding renewables but rejects climate rules that raise costs, combining both concerns.