SPD on climate and energy

The SPD wants municipalities to receive a mandatory share of profits from local energy production. Where a lot of green power is generated, cheap regional electricity rates are to apply. The shift in heating is to be carried out in a socially fair way with support for residents and municipalities.

Towns should get money when power is produced there. This should be required. People who live there should pay less for electricity. Residents and towns should get help with changing heating systems.

Following the example of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the SPD wants to introduce low regional daytime electricity rates that benefit residents, municipalities, and businesses in generating regions. Costs and benefits of the transition are to be shared fairly. The party states that people with high incomes should bear more responsibility for climate protection and the energy transition, and it wants to raise the question of distribution anew.

The SPD wants to expand generation, storage and grids for renewable energy as fast as possible. Saxony is to rely on a mix of solar, wind, hydro, biomass, biogas, geothermal and green hydrogen, with gas power plants serving as a transitional solution.

The SPD wants more power from sun, wind and water. Storage and power lines should also be built quickly. Gas power plants should help for a transition period. Later they should run on green hydrogen.

The gas plants are to be flexible and later fully convertible to green hydrogen. According to the platform, Lusatia is to become Germany's largest site for renewable power generation, with fourteen gigawatts by 2040. The SPD wants a major build-out of ground-mounted solar along highways and rail lines, using these routes as "energy corridors." Municipalities and energy cooperatives are to get help in becoming energy self-sufficient, and state-owned buildings are to be upgraded for energy efficiency quickly.

The SPD stands by the agreed end of coal power by 2038 at the latest. It considers an earlier exit possible but ties it to a secure and affordable energy supply and enough new, well-paid jobs in the coal regions.

The SPD wants to stop using coal by 2038 at the latest. An earlier end is only possible under conditions. Power must stay secure and affordable. The coal regions must have enough new, well-paid jobs.

The platform says the sooner these conditions are met, the bigger Saxony's head start. It notes that companies have already begun the transition and should be supported. Lusatia and the Central German coal region are to remain centers of Saxony's energy infrastructure after coal.

The SPD wants Saxony linked to Germany's national hydrogen core network by several pipelines, with key industrial regions connected directly. This is meant to preserve what the platform sees as the state's current lead in hydrogen.

The SPD wants hydrogen pipelines to reach Saxony. Hydrogen is a gas that provides energy. Important industrial regions should be connected directly. Storage sites for hydrogen should also be built.

Beyond the core network, a distribution network is to carry hydrogen to all regions of Saxony. The platform calls for early planning and a clearly defined financing structure for this. The same applies to building hydrogen storage facilities.

The SPD wants to revise the state development plan and set goals for Saxony's spatial planning in it. The plan is to anchor the protection of natural habitats and socially balanced climate action, including the federal target of two percent of the state's area for wind energy.

The SPD wants to renew the plan for how Saxony develops. The plan should protect nature and the climate. Two percent of Saxony's land should be available for wind turbines. The federal government requires this. New ideas should be tested in pilot projects.

The state development plan sets out how land in Saxony is used and developed. In addition to nature conservation, the SPD wants it to include a commitment to climate action that is socially acceptable. All options are to be used to meet the federal land target for wind energy. An experimentation clause is meant to allow new development approaches to be tested as pilots.

The SPD is counting on a mix of renewable energy sources and wants to support energy-intensive companies with a bridge electricity price, meaning a temporarily state-subsidized power price. Municipalities are to get a larger share of revenues from renewable energy.

The SPD wants more power from sun, wind and water. Companies that use a lot of power should get cheaper power for a while. Towns should get more money from wind and solar plants. Power should always stay secure and affordable.

The platform's technology mix includes solar, wind, hydro, sustainable biogas and green hydrogen. The transition is to be managed so that Saxony's supply stays secure and affordable throughout. The SPD also sees CO2 neutrality as a precondition for a strong economy. This goal is therefore to play a central role in funding for business and infrastructure.

The SPD wants a major expansion of photovoltaics in Saxony: along highways and rail lines, on artificial lakes, on rooftops and over parking lots. Solar would become mandatory on new buildings. Planning and permitting procedures for infrastructure are to move faster.

The SPD wants more power from the sun. Solar panels should stand along highways and rail lines. They should also be on roofs, over parking lots and on lakes. New buildings should have to carry solar panels. Permits should come faster.

Saxony's solar industry would be supported with money from the "Sachsenfonds 2050." The SPD wants to lobby the federal government for pilot corridors of solar and wind installations along stretches of rail and highway in Saxony. For faster procedures, the platform points to the buildout of LNG infrastructure as a model. The Task Force Energiewende would continue its work. The Landesdirektion (state administrative authority) and the regional planning associations would be strengthened. The SPD also wants to involve skilled trades more closely in planning the climate-neutral transition.

The SPD considers the shift of electricity, heating and transport to renewable energy unavoidable and wants to shape it in a socially balanced way. Replacing heating systems and the heating transition should remain predictable and affordable. At the federal level, the party backs introducing the Klimageld (climate dividend).

The SPD wants to move away from oil, gas and coal. Power, heating and transport should become clean. This should be affordable for everyone. The state should help pay for support programs. The SPD also wants a federal climate payment. That is money paid to citizens to offset higher prices.

SAENA, Saxony's energy agency, is to help municipalities with heat planning. The SPD wants to co-finance federal funding programs with state money and create its own state programs where needed. Housing subsidies would give more weight to ecological insulation materials. Companies would get special support in becoming climate neutral. Education for sustainable development and climate schools would continue to be funded.

The SPD wants to fund the expansion of renewable energy and storage and to help companies become climate neutral. Energy-intensive firms are to receive subsidies for this. The stated aim is to keep industry while ending carbon emissions.

The SPD wants more power from wind and sun. It also wants to support power storage. Companies that use a lot of energy should get state money. This should help them become climate neutral. Industry should stay in Saxony.

According to the platform, former lignite mining areas should make Lusatia Germany's largest site for renewable energy by 2030. By 2040, 14 gigawatts of power are to be generated there, which the SPD says is almost twice the output from lignite. Regional business funding is to support the climate-neutral transition more strongly, including for small and medium-sized firms. The SPD argues that fossil energy will become very expensive in the future.