FDP on climate and energy

The FDP wants to organize the energy transition through technology-neutral sector coupling, meaning the linking of electricity, gas, heat, and transport. This includes expanding renewables, backup capacity for supply security, and support for hydrogen and synthetic fuels.

The FDP wants to link electricity, gas, heat, and transport better. This is called sector coupling. No technology should be favored. Wind power should grow. Hydrogen should get support. Energy should stay secure and affordable.

The platform sees a tension between expanding renewables and a secure supply, which it considers at risk from the coal phase-out and the current expansion strategy. The FDP calls for reviewing market entry barriers for sector-coupling technologies and considers a funding program for a competitive market necessary. A roadmap with an implementation strategy is to be drawn up across ministries together with the chamber of commerce, energy suppliers, grid operators, and companies. Wind power is to be expanded and renewed through repowering, and gas and heat infrastructure integrated. For hydrogen, the party wants to fund research and development and expand networks to spur investment.

The FDP wants to increase the share of heat pumps and expand electricity and heat storage. To do so, it calls for a heat plan for the state and an expansion plan for the energy grids in Bremen and Bremerhaven.

Heat pumps heat with almost no harm to the climate. The FDP wants more of them in Bremen. The state should get a plan for heating. The power grids should also become stronger. The steel plant should get a better power line.

According to the platform, heat pumps can heat in a nearly climate-neutral way and need few resources. The grid expansion plan is meant to reveal weak points and potential in the energy networks, since electricity demand grows with the shift to renewables. The FDP wants to reinforce the power line to the steel plant as quickly as possible because long cables cause high energy losses. The power system is to be adapted technically, economically, and legally to solar and wind power. Digitalization of the energy system should move ahead, along with protection against software errors and cyberattacks.

The FDP wants the state and its cities to make suitable land for solar and wind power available to citizen energy cooperatives. This is meant to raise public support for the energy transition. The expansion of renewables should also speed up in inner-city areas.

The FDP wants more power from sun and wind. The state and the cities should offer land for this. Citizens should run the plants together. More solar panels should also be built in the city, and faster.

The program calls for public land suited to photovoltaics and wind power to be used by cooperatives of citizens. In the FDP's view, climate-neutral energy production can only be achieved if many citizens take part. Energy should be used as close as possible to where it is produced. For that reason, the expansion of renewables such as photovoltaics should be accelerated in inner-city areas as well.

The FDP wants to examine whether Bremerhaven could get its own hydrogen terminal. It also supports facilities where ships can refuel with alternative fuels. Shore power would be installed only where it proves economically and technically feasible case by case.

The FDP wants to check if Bremerhaven can get a hydrogen terminal. Ships could deliver hydrogen there. Ships should also be able to fill up with new fuels. Power from land for ships should only come where it pays off.

The best site for the terminal would be identified through a land-efficiency analysis. Under the platform, the terminal would be part of a new energy infrastructure that also includes the steelworks' 300-megawatt electrolyzer, and the steel industry is expected to benefit. Facilities for e-fuels, methanol, ammonia, and shipping CO2 are to be studied as well. In port operations, hydrogen is to play a role for cargo-handling equipment, trucks, and the port railway. On shore power, the FDP calls for a cost-benefit review and coordination with shipping lines, shipyards, and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

The FDP commits to making the state of Bremen climate neutral by 2038 and wants to implement the measures of the Enquete Commission (a parliamentary study commission) with a timeline and financing plan. The estimated 7 billion euros are to come from EU, federal, and budget funds without new borrowing.

Bremen should be climate neutral by 2038. That means Bremen no longer harms the climate. The FDP does not want new debt for this. The money should come from the EU, the federal government, and the budget.

The platform counts on about 2 billion euros from the federal Energy and Climate Fund and on roughly 200 million euros a year already set aside for climate protection in the state budget. A further 100 million euros or so per year is to be freed up by shifting budget priorities. State money is mainly to top up federal and EU funds; about 300 million euros is earmarked for converting the steel plant. Emission allowances are to become scarcer to the same extent that CO2 is to be cut. The FDP rejects new staff positions and wants funding to go first to what achieves the most, such as renovating the buildings with the worst energy rating.

The FDP calls for a state fund to support innovative and environmentally friendly ideas. In its view, cutting CO2 emissions requires technological progress and sustainable growth.

The FDP wants a fund for new ideas on climate protection. A fund is a pot of money. The money should flow quickly and simply. That way good ideas become real faster.

The fund is to work quickly, with little red tape, and transparently. It is meant to stimulate competition and speed up the implementation of projects. The platform sees great potential in Bremen and Bremerhaven for sustainable startups and inventions. Policymakers are to set incentives and support such efforts rather than hinder them.

The FDP wants to implement the coastal protection master plan quickly and expand protection against heat. It points to the flood risk Bremen faces and to rising temperatures in both cities.

Bremen is at risk of flooding. The FDP wants to raise the dikes quickly. Sirens should warn people again in a disaster. People should also be better protected from heat.

The dikes are to be raised to 8.30 meters above standard sea level. Flood maps are to be reviewed and updated. The FDP welcomes cell broadcasting, meaning warning messages sent to mobile phones, and also calls for sirens to be put back into service for disasters. On heat, it demands a heat action plan modeled on WHO guidance and a central coordination office for Bremen and Bremerhaven.