Grüne on climate and energy

The Greens want to write climate protection into the constitution of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a state objective. This is to come with binding targets, measures, and regular review. According to the platform, this makes decisions predictable.

The Greens want to put climate protection into the state constitution. The constitution is the most important law of the state. There should be fixed goals and measures. The state should check its progress regularly.

Climate protection is to be given the status of a state objective. The plan includes binding targets and measures as well as regular monitoring. The party argues that this makes decisions predictable and that, in its view, there should be no more excuses on climate protection.

The Greens want to make it binding that Mecklenburg-Vorpommern becomes greenhouse gas neutral by 2035. Climate protection is to become a cross-cutting task of state policy, including through a climate check for laws, programs, and budgets and a climate fund for municipalities.

The Greens want a fixed climate goal for the state. By 2035, the state should no longer harm the climate. Every new law should be checked for its effect on the climate. Towns should get money for climate protection.

Besides the 2035 target year, the platform calls for a mandatory climate check for all state laws, programs, and budgets. Climate protection managers are to be established and strengthened in all state agencies and municipalities. The state energy and climate agency (LEKA) is to become the central office for advice, funding, and data. A state climate fund would pass revenue from leasing and operating renewables on state-owned land to municipalities. The party argues that climate protection otherwise remains lip service.

The Greens want to make the shift to climate-friendly heating socially fair, predictable, and affordable. Municipalities are to get support with heat planning, energy and renovation advice is to be expanded, and waste heat and geothermal energy are to be tapped with the help of a state risk fund.

The Greens want heating to stay affordable and harm the climate less. The state should help towns with planning. There should be more advice on renovation and on funding. A state fund should back up heating projects.

Advice on municipal heat planning is to be firmly established in the state, and federal funding is to be topped up as needed. A transparent funding check is planned for municipalities, businesses, and households. A state risk fund would back municipal heating projects so that industrial waste heat, for example from data centers, and geothermal energy can be used for local supply. The platform argues that many people live in unrenovated homes heated with oil or gas and that housing would otherwise become more expensive.

The Greens want to make Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a leader in renewable energy. Permits are to be faster and uniform, additional offshore areas designated in the Baltic Sea, photovoltaics promoted more strongly, and citizen-owned energy strengthened. The platform expects cheap electricity and independence from fossil fuels as a result.

The Greens want more power from wind and sun. Agencies should approve new plants faster. There should be more solar panels on roofs and parking lots. Citizens should be able to join energy projects more easily.

The plan includes a single statewide decree for wind and solar, binding deadlines, and digital procedures; permitting authorities are to be rebuilt as well-staffed agencies. More areas for nature-compatible offshore wind farms are to be set aside in the Baltic Sea while avoiding conflicts with protected areas. Photovoltaics are to be promoted on roofs, public buildings, and multi-use areas such as parking lots, bike paths, and farmland (agri-PV). The subsidy program for balcony solar units is to be relaunched and extended to small storage units. Citizen energy is to be strengthened through a dedicated fund, preferred access to state land, and more transparency in the state energy atlas.

The Greens want people living near wind and solar farms to get cheaper electricity. Households in the immediate vicinity would no longer pay grid fees, which according to the platform cuts the electricity price by up to a quarter. Those who bear the energy transition should also benefit from it, the party argues.

Some people live close to wind turbines or solar farms. The Greens want them to pay less for power. They should no longer pay grid fees. Grid fees are charges for the power lines. This makes their power up to a quarter cheaper.

The full exemption would apply to households within two kilometers of wind turbines and within 500 meters of ground-mounted solar installations. It covers the grid fees on their own electricity use. According to the party, this keeps value creation in the regions. The rule is also meant to create incentives to electrify heating and transport, for example with heat pumps and electric cars.

The Greens want to better coordinate grids, storage, and power generation so that renewable electricity can be distributed, stored, and used. Citizens are to be able to invest in battery storage run by regional utilities. According to the platform, grids are currently overloaded and storage is lacking.

Power from wind and sun has to reach people. The Greens want better grids and more storage for that. Storage keeps power for later. Citizens should be able to put money into battery storage and earn from it.

The expansion of grids, wind and solar plants, and storage is to be coordinated statewide and with foresight to avoid bottlenecks. A matching platform would allow generators, storage units, and consumers to share grid connection points. Flexible large consumers such as power-to-heat systems for heat storage are to be expanded through pilot projects. Permitting authorities are to be modernized, digitized, and given more staff. Battery storage is meant to absorb surplus wind and solar power, which can later be sold at a profit.

The Greens want Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to move away from oil and gas and to make the shift socially fair. A hydrogen strategy is to focus green hydrogen on areas that are hard to electrify. New gas power plants would only be allowed under conditions, and a 65 percent renewables quota would apply to new heating systems.

The Greens want to move away from oil and gas. The state should get a plan for green hydrogen. Green hydrogen is a gas made with clean power. New gas power plants must be able to run on hydrogen later. New heating systems should run on 65 percent renewable energy.

The hydrogen strategy is to set targets, demand, funding, and infrastructure and be coordinated with the federal government and the northern German states. Priority goes to areas such as industry, process heat, and shipping. New gas power plants must be hydrogen-ready, have a conversion roadmap, and run only to a limited extent. The 65 percent quota for new heating systems is to be written into the state climate protection law. The party argues that fossil fuels create dependence, drive up prices, and lead tenants and consumers into a cost trap.

The Greens want to anchor the rewetting of peatlands in the state water law and make it economically viable. Towns and municipalities are to get more help adapting to heat, heavy rain and flooding. The platform treats natural climate protection and climate adaptation as belonging together.

The Greens want to make dry peatlands wet again. Wet peatlands store the climate gas CO2. Farmers should still be able to earn money on wet peatlands. Towns and villages should get help. This should protect them better from heat and heavy rain.

Rewetting is to be written into the state water law and pursued with fair compensation. Support would go to farming on wet peatlands (paludiculture), solar installations on peatland and measures that hold water back in the peat. Wetlands are also to be strengthened in the law because, according to the platform, landscapes that store water help prepare for climate change. Municipal climate adaptation plans are to be funded, for example drinking water fountains, climate-resilient tree planting and sponge-city measures.

The Greens want to conclude a climate pact with municipalities and support them in the energy transition with advice, expertise and funding. A new climate fund is to provide start-up capital for local projects. The program sees counties, towns and municipalities as playing a key role in climate protection.

The Greens want to make a climate pact with towns and villages. Towns get advice and money for the switch to clean energy. A new climate fund is planned for this. A fund is a pot of money for one purpose.

From the climate fund, a municipality could receive up to 300,000 euros, for example to pay for feasibility studies, heat planning or efficiency measures. The fund is meant to help above all where regular funding programs do not yet apply or where tight budgets leave no room for a municipality's own contribution. The money is to come from revenue generated by renewable energy on state-owned land. According to the program, the expansion should thus also benefit the municipalities that make it possible.