What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on climate and energy?

The AfD wants to end the energy transition in Saxony-Anhalt and return to a broad energy mix that includes fossil fuels. Instead of climate protection, the state would get a strategy for adapting to the climate. The platform cites high energy prices and the burden on low-income households as reasons.

The AfD wants to end the energy transition in Saxony-Anhalt. Energy should again come from coal, oil and gas too. The AfD does not want to protect the climate. The state should adapt to the climate instead. This is meant to make energy cheaper.

The AfD wants to cut all state subsidies for renewable energy while honoring existing commitments. In the Bundesrat, the state would push for the federal government to stop its support as well and for the feed-in priority for green power to be dropped. In the party's view, renewables should hold their own on the free market.

The AfD wants to stop state money for wind and solar power. Old promises would still be kept. The federal government should also stop this support. Green power should no longer go first into the power grid. It should manage without help from the state.

The AfD wants to dissolve the state energy agency and repeal the state law meant to increase acceptance of renewable energy expansion. The party considers the agency a waste of taxpayer money. It says the law uses financial incentives to pressure municipalities into approving wind and solar projects.

The state has an energy agency. The AfD wants to close it. It says the agency costs too much. A law should go too. It gives towns money if wind turbines or solar parks stand there. The AfD says this puts pressure on towns.

The AfD wants to push in the Bundesrat for repeal of the Heat Planning Act and the Building Energy Act and to scrap the related state law. Funding for heat pumps would end. Households, landlords and municipalities should decide for themselves how to heat, including with natural gas, heating oil and wood.

There are laws on heating and on heat planning. The AfD wants to get rid of these laws. Everyone should decide how to heat their home. Gas, oil and wood should stay allowed. There should be no more public money for heat pumps.

The AfD wants to adopt a wind power moratorium so that no new wind turbines are approved in the state for the time being. It rejects large solar parks in cultural landscapes and on farmland. It also wants to examine whether operators can be required to set aside reserves for dismantling their installations.

The AfD wants to allow no new wind turbines for now. Large solar parks should not stand on fields. Solar panels should go on roofs. Owners should pay to take down their plants later. The state should not pay for that.

The AfD wants to end the state's hydrogen strategy immediately and cut all state funding for green hydrogen. In the party's view, hydrogen is not competitive as an energy source. The money set aside for a hydrogen network would be saved.

The state supports green hydrogen. That is a gas made with green power. The AfD wants to stop this support. It says hydrogen costs too much. The state should save the money.

The AfD wants to continue generating electricity from lignite and increase the state's energy autonomy. A blackout strategy would be drawn up for a large-scale power outage. The platform argues that expanding wind and solar power has made the supply unreliable.

The AfD wants to keep making power from lignite, a kind of coal. The state should supply itself well with energy. The AfD also wants a plan for big power outages. The plan should protect people in an emergency.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat to push for an end to energy sanctions against Russia and a return to normal trade relations. The Nord Stream pipelines are to be repaired and used for gas imports. According to the platform, fracked gas shipped by sea cannot replace Russian pipeline gas.

The AfD wants to buy gas from Russia again. The sanctions on energy should end. Sanctions are penalties against a country, such as trade bans. The Nord Stream gas pipelines should be repaired. The AfD says Russian gas is cheaper.

The AfD wants to stop Germany's coal phase-out and keep using lignite in Saxony-Anhalt beyond 2038. It also wants new gas-fired power plants, preferably in the state as well. The platform expects lower electricity prices, stable grids and secure industrial jobs.

The AfD wants to keep making power from coal. The coal phase-out should stop. Coal plants should keep running in the state after 2038. New gas power plants should be built too. The AfD says this makes power cheaper and more reliable.

The AfD wants Germany to generate electricity from nuclear power again and would advocate for this in the Bundesrat. As a first step, nuclear energy research is to be re-established in the state. The platform calls Germany's nuclear exit a special path while other countries expand nuclear power.

The AfD wants nuclear power plants in Germany again. First, the state should do nuclear research again. Later, nuclear power should be produced again. Until then, coal and gas should supply the power.

The AfD rejects current climate protection policy and instead wants locally focused environmental and homeland protection along with climate adaptation. Wind and solar projects that it believes endanger the local microclimate would not be approved. State funds for climate protection and the federal government's international climate aid are to be cut.

The AfD wants to end current climate policy. It says Saxony-Anhalt cannot save the world's climate. Instead, it wants to protect nature locally. Some wind turbines and solar parks should no longer be allowed. The state should stop spending money on climate protection.

The AfD wants to create an institute to study the consequences of the climate policies of previous federal and state governments. Scientists critical of climate policy should be able to do research in Saxony-Anhalt undisturbed. The findings are meant to prepare a parliamentary inquiry.

The AfD wants to found a new research institute. It should check what effects climate policy has had. Researchers who criticize this policy should be able to work in the state. Later, a committee in the state parliament should investigate climate policy.

The AfD wants Germany to leave the Paris climate agreement, the European Green Deal to be terminated and the Federal Climate Protection Act to be abolished. Emissions trading is also to end. The platform argues that global climate protection has effectively failed and that the CO₂ price puts domestic companies at a competitive disadvantage.

The AfD wants to leave the Paris climate agreement. The German climate protection law should also go. Companies should no longer have to pay for CO₂. CO₂ is a gas that is produced when things burn. The AfD says these rules hurt companies in the state.

The AfD wants a state government under its leadership to push in the Bundesrat for scrapping the CO₂ levy. The platform justifies this with the extra costs for consumers on fuel and heating and with what it sees as growing energy poverty in the state.

The AfD wants to get rid of the CO₂ levy. This is an extra charge on gasoline, heating oil and gas. The AfD says the levy makes energy too expensive for many people. It wants to push for this in the Bundesrat, the chamber of the German states.

The AfD rejects rules meant to limit people's consumption for climate reasons, such as on eating meat. Under its government there would be no CO₂ budget for the state or for individual citizens; people should decide about their own consumption themselves.

The AfD does not want climate bans on what people buy and eat. For example, nobody should have to eat less meat. There should also be no CO₂ budget. That is a fixed amount of emissions that is allowed. Everyone should decide for themselves what to buy and eat.

The AfD wants Saxony-Anhalt to take part in research and development projects on nuclear fusion. The platform's goal is to secure access to this technology, share in the economic value it creates, and depend less on energy imports.

The AfD wants to support research on nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is a new way to produce energy. Saxony-Anhalt should join research projects. This way Germany should need to buy less energy from abroad.

The AfD wants to change the state's forestry rules so that no new wind turbines are built in forests. Animal and forest protection would take priority. The platform cites cleared corridors, higher fire risk and damage to plants and wildlife.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in forests. It wants to change state rules to do this. Protecting forests and animals should matter more. The forest should stay a place to relax.

The BSW wants to lower taxes on energy and abolish the CO₂ levy. No gas station should be allowed to charge more than €1.50 for fuel. The platform justifies this with rising prices and falling purchasing power.

The BSW wants lower taxes on energy. The CO₂ levy should go. That is an extra charge on gasoline, gas and heating oil. Gasoline and diesel should cost no more than €1.50.

The BSW wants to buy energy from all suppliers and to negotiate with Russia over gas. The Nord Stream pipeline is to be used because, in the party's view, shipping liquefied gas is costly and cumbersome.

The BSW wants to buy gas from Russia again. There should be talks with Russia about this. The gas should come through the Nord Stream pipeline. The party says gas by ship costs too much.

The BSW considers renewable energy indispensable but not sufficient on its own. It calls for a technology-neutral energy mix with guaranteed capacity, which for now includes lignite, and wants to support research into new reactor technologies.

The BSW says wind and solar power alone are not enough. There should be several sources of energy. For a certain time, that includes lignite, a type of coal. The BSW also wants to fund research on new reactors.

The BSW wants to expand renewable energy in a planned manner and steer solar installations onto roofs and sealed surfaces. Wind power should grow in a regionally balanced way, biogas should be strengthened, and citizens, municipalities and cooperatives should share in the revenues.

The BSW wants more power from sun, wind and biogas. Solar panels should go on roofs and parking lots, not on fields or in forests. Wind turbines should be spread fairly across the state. Citizens and towns should share in the profits.

The BSW wants to abolish the Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG, the Renewable Energy Sources Act). It would be replaced by targeted investment grants, mainly for installations on roofs and sealed surfaces.

The EEG is a law. It governs support for power from sun and wind. The BSW wants to abolish this law. Instead, there would be money for building certain installations, for example on roofs.

The BSW wants to coordinate the expansion of renewables with the expansion of grids and storage and speed up both. Grid fees should be capped, allocated according to who causes the costs, and kept socially acceptable.

The BSW wants to expand power grids and power storage faster. Grid costs should be shared fairly. Regions with a lot of wind power should not pay more than others. Grid fees should stay affordable.

The BSW wants to adapt the shift in heat supply to the conditions of a large, sparsely populated state. Instead of fixed requirements, technology-neutral rules and longer transitions should apply, and costly requirements in energy and emissions law should be reviewed.

Heating is supposed to become more climate-friendly. The BSW wants less strict rules for this. Rural areas should be able to use other solutions than cities. The BSW wants to review costly regulations.

The BSW calls for suspending or abolishing national carbon pricing because, in its view, it does little for the climate and mainly burdens low and middle incomes. As long as it exists, the revenue should be returned to citizens as a climate bonus.

People who buy gasoline or heating oil pay a price for CO₂. The BSW wants to stop or abolish this price. As long as it applies, citizens should get the money back. This is called a climate bonus.

The BSW rejects wind turbines and photovoltaic installations in forest areas as a matter of principle. The opening of forests to wind power is to be reversed. Photovoltaics are to be steered onto roofs and land that is already sealed.

The BSW wants no wind turbines in forests. Solar arrays should not stand there either. The party says turbines harm animals, plants, and the forest climate. Solar panels should go on roofs. Fields and meadows should stay free.

The BSW rejects underground CO₂ storage (CCS) in Saxony-Anhalt, particularly in the Altmark region. The party sees risks for the environment, health and cost-effectiveness. Instead it wants to fund decentralized energy storage and reforestation.

The BSW does not want CO₂ stored underground. This applies to all of Saxony-Anhalt. The party thinks it is dangerous. It would rather plant new forests. It also wants to fund storage for green power.

The CDU calls for an immediate halt to the phase-out of free CO2 allowances in the European Emissions Trading System. The cancellation of allowances in the Market Stability Reserve is also to be stopped and revised. The reason given is the competitiveness of the chemical and basic materials industry.

Companies in the EU need allowances for their CO2 emissions. They get some of them for free so far. Under EU plans, that free share will shrink. The CDU wants to stop this right away. It wants to protect the chemical industry in the state.

The CDU rejects a blanket ban on combustion engines and backs openness to all technologies. It wants to fund research on alternative fuels, hydrogen networks and storage, and to keep the tax break for diesel.

The CDU is against a general ban on combustion engines. It wants to allow different technologies. The state should fund research on new fuels. Diesel should keep its lower tax. Fuels with less CO2 should get support.

The CDU wants to launch an initiative to split Germany's single electricity bidding zone into several regional zones. The cheap wind power generated in the state should thereby translate into lower prices for industry and households in Saxony-Anhalt.

Today all of Germany has the same wholesale price for electricity. The CDU wants to split Germany into several price areas. Saxony-Anhalt makes a lot of cheap wind power. So electricity should become cheaper there.

The CDU gives security of supply and affordable prices top priority in energy policy. It welcomes the industrial electricity price, wants grid fees equalized nationwide, and wants baseload power plants dismantled only once replacements are in place.

The CDU wants electricity to always be available and affordable. It likes the cheaper electricity price for industry. Grid costs should be shared equally across Germany. Old power plants should only go when there is a replacement.

The CDU wants every wind turbine to have the consent of the local municipality and to benefit it. It rejects fixed land-area targets for wind power beyond 2027 and is skeptical of turbines in forests. All forms of energy are to be supported on equal terms.

The CDU says the local town must agree to every wind turbine. The party rejects fixed targets for wind areas after 2027. It is skeptical of wind turbines in forests. All kinds of energy should get the same support.

The CDU wants to keep the agreed coal phase-out by 2038, citing reliability toward the affected regions and companies. Structural funding is to be used in a targeted way to create new prospects in the coal areas.

Germany plans to stop using coal by 2038. The CDU wants to keep this date. The coal regions should be able to rely on it. Funding should create new opportunities there.

The CDU wants to make it more attractive to generate and store electricity yourself and pass it on to neighbors. According to the platform, this would ease the load on grids, lower costs and increase acceptance. Smart grids and a fair grid fee structure are meant to make this possible.

People who make their own electricity should be able to share it with neighbors. The CDU wants to support electricity storage. Power grids should become smarter. This should lower costs and ease the load on grids.

The CDU wants a power plant for natural gas and hydrogen to be built and the industrial and chemical parks quickly connected to the national hydrogen network. It also backs new technologies such as carbon capture and storage, batteries, heat storage and synthetic fuels.

The CDU wants a power plant for natural gas and hydrogen to be built. Industry should quickly be connected to the hydrogen network. The party also backs new technology. This includes capturing and storing the gas CO2.

The CDU wants municipal heat planning to remain legally sound, affordable and technically feasible. It relies on domestic renewable raw materials as well as geothermal energy and waste heat. Biogas and biomethane plants are to be preserved and expanded further.

Towns and cities plan how people will heat in the future. The CDU wants these plans to be affordable and doable. It relies on raw materials from the region, such as biogas and wood. There should be more biogas plants.

The CDU wants to expand photovoltaics but rejects a solar mandate for new buildings and roof renovations. Good farmland is to remain reserved for food production. The state is to use its own roofs and facades and thereby set an example.

The CDU wants more solar panels. But nobody should be forced to put solar panels on their roof. Good fields should stay for growing food. The state should use its own roofs for solar panels.

The CDU wants to protect cities better against heat, modernize water management and limit land consumption. It justifies this with the effects of climate change on cities, groundwater and surface waters.

The climate is changing. The CDU wants to protect cities better from heat. Water should be stored better. Less new land should be built on.

The CDU wants to roll back climate and environmental requirements for industry that it considers impractical and ideological. It opposes the EU Taxonomy Regulation, the supply chain law, additional CO₂ charges, and blanket chemical bans because, in its view, they endanger jobs and investment.

The EU makes rules for climate and the environment. The CDU thinks many of them are bad for industry. It wants to take such rules back. It is against new charges on CO₂ and against blanket bans on chemicals. This is how it wants to protect jobs in industry.

The Greens call for anchoring climate protection as a state goal in the state constitution. This is meant to give responsibility toward future generations a stronger legal footing.

The Greens want to change the constitution of Saxony-Anhalt. It should say: climate protection is a goal of the state. This is meant to protect the people of tomorrow.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a Klimageld (climate dividend). Revenue from carbon pricing would be paid directly to the public, which the program says benefits mainly people with low emissions.

The Greens want a climate payment. The state collects money through the carbon price. People should get this money back. This helps most those who cause little CO₂.

The Greens call for a precautionary strategy for adapting to the effects of the climate crisis. It is meant to protect against floods, heat, and drought, with a focus on especially vulnerable groups.

The climate is getting warmer. There are more droughts and more floods. The Greens want to prepare the state for this. They want more green space in cities and strong disaster protection.

The Greens reject wind turbines in forests in principle in order to protect the ecosystem. They would only be a secondary option, for example on forest land that is already damaged.

The Greens generally do not want wind turbines in forests. The forest should stay protected. Exceptions should be rare. For example, where the forest is already damaged.

The Greens want Saxony-Anhalt to get 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. To do so, decentralized expansion is to be pushed forward and the land-area target for wind power kept.

The Greens want all electricity in the state to come from renewable sources by 2030. These include wind and sun. Enough land should stay set aside for wind turbines. Old turbines should be easier to replace with new ones.

The Greens want to lower electricity prices for households and businesses. To that end, the electricity tax is to fall to the minimum allowed under EU law, Germany is to be split into several electricity price zones, and grid fees are to become regional and dynamic.

The Greens want electricity to be cheaper. The tax on electricity should be as low as the EU allows. The price of electricity could differ from region to region. Grid fees should also depend on region and time.

The Greens want people to benefit directly from cheap renewable electricity where it is produced, in order to raise acceptance of wind and solar plants. Citizen energy cooperatives, local citizen electricity tariffs, self-generated power and balcony solar units are to be supported.

The Greens want everyone to gain from the energy transition. Citizens should be able to run their own plants together. People living near wind turbines should get cheap electricity. People with little money should get help to buy a balcony solar unit.

The Greens want to introduce a solar mandate for new buildings, for homes through the state building code. Land that is already sealed is to be used first for the energy transition, while ground-mounted solar plants are to be steered in a way that is compatible with nature.

The Greens want a solar requirement. New buildings should get solar panels on the roof. This also applies to company and government buildings. That way power is made where the ground is already built on.

The Greens want to enable more research and investment in geothermal energy and also see great potential in river heat pumps. Farmers are to be able to earn income from solar installations, and existing biogas plants are to be kept and used more flexibly.

The Greens want to use more heat from the ground and from rivers. Farmers should be able to earn money with solar panels. The state's biogas plants should stay. They should use less corn and more leftovers.

The Greens want to renovate, improve and, where needed, expand the power grids so that the growth of renewables and storage and the electrification of industry, heating and transport succeed. Decentralized supply is meant to make regions more independent and more stable in a crisis.

The Greens want to renew the power grids and expand them where needed. There should be more electricity storage. Modern electricity meters should reach homes faster. This keeps the supply safe even in a crisis.

The Greens expect the coal phase-out in Saxony-Anhalt to come before the legal end date of late 2034 for market reasons. They therefore want to remove Lützen as a priority area for lignite and speed up the exit with a hydrogen-ready gas power plant in Schkopau.

The Greens think coal will end sooner than planned. So no coal should be mined near Lützen. A new gas power plant should be built in Schkopau. Later it should also be able to run on hydrogen.

The Greens want to support owners of heating systems in switching to renewable heat sources, on top of the federal programs. The focus is on low-income households and on areas where the switch is especially difficult.

The Greens want to help people change their heating. The state should give money on top of what the federal government gives. People with little money should get help first. Towns and cities should plan how homes will be heated in the future.

The Greens want to make switching to climate-friendly heating easier. Renovation subsidies would be scaled to income, and large heat pumps would become a core part of the heat supply.

The Greens want more people to heat their homes in a climate-friendly way. People with less money should get more help to renovate. Applying for help should be easier. Large heat pumps should supply heat to whole city districts.

The Greens want renewable energy to expand in step with nature and species protection. Solar panels should go on roofs and sealed surfaces first, and ground-mounted solar farms would face binding ecological requirements.

The Greens want to build more solar panels. Nature should stay protected. Solar panels should go on roofs first. Solar farms on open land should follow strict nature rules.

The Greens oppose new natural gas extraction projects, especially those using fracking. They cite dangers to the environment and public health.

The Greens do not want new natural gas drilling. Above all, they reject fracking. Fracking presses gas out of rock with high pressure. The party says this harms nature and health.

The Greens reject capturing, transporting or storing CO₂ underground. Instead, emissions should be avoided as far as possible in the first place.

The Greens do not want CCS. With CCS, the gas CO₂ is caught and stored under the ground. The party would rather avoid CO₂ from the start. Industry should be rebuilt for that.

The Greens want to keep building out hydrogen infrastructure in Saxony-Anhalt and to shore up demand for hydrogen. They argue the state's chemical industry will not be competitive in the future without renewably produced hydrogen.

The Greens want more green hydrogen in the state. Green hydrogen is a gas made with clean electricity. The party says the chemical industry needs it for the future. The state should support projects and buyers.

The Greens set the goal that every university in the state operates climate-neutrally by 2030 at the latest. The state would back this with investment programs and a climate protection fund; animal testing is also to be cut to a minimum.

The state's universities should be climate-neutral by 2030. That means they no longer harm the climate. The state should provide money for this. The Greens also want fewer experiments on animals. They support research without animal testing.

The Greens want all state spending to be reviewed for its climate impact and want to cut subsidies that harm the climate and environment. State money is not to be invested in nuclear energy, coal or companies that use child labor.

The Greens want to check every state expense for its effect on the climate. If an expense harms the climate, the state must give reasons for it. The state should not invest money in coal or nuclear power. Subsidies that harm the climate should end.

The Left aims for electricity in Saxony-Anhalt to come solely from renewable sources and for a climate-neutral heat supply. Energy is to be treated as an essential public service and placed more in citizens' hands. The platform rejects a return to nuclear power, arguing that such debates raise false expectations.

The Left wants power only from wind, sun and similar sources. Heating should no longer harm the climate either. The party rejects nuclear power. Citizens should have more say in energy.

The Left wants a mandatory low-cost base tariff for electricity and heat as well as a legal ban on power and gas shutoffs. Government oversight of electricity prices is to return. The platform argues that high energy prices hit people with low incomes hardest and that energy is an essential public service.

The Left wants a fixed low price for basic power and heat needs. No one should have their power or gas cut off. The state should check power prices again. People with energy debts should get help.

The Left wants to cut grid fees substantially, lower the electricity tax to 0.1 cents per kilowatt-hour and transfer energy grids to public ownership. The platform argues that people in Saxony-Anhalt pay more for power than those in other German states.

The Left wants cheaper electricity. Fees for the power grid should go down. The tax on electricity should drop a lot. The grids should belong to the public.

The Left wants to keep expanding wind and solar power while safeguarding nature protection, transparency and local participation. Its plans include a solar requirement for new buildings and a larger financial share for municipalities and residents.

The Left wants more power from wind and sun. New buildings should have to get solar panels. Public buildings should get them too. Towns and neighbors should benefit. Nature should stay protected.

The Left wants to place energy supply more firmly in public and cooperative hands. The state energy agency is to become a state energy company, and municipal utilities, rural utilities and energy cooperatives are to receive support.

The Left wants energy to belong more to local people. The state should get its own energy company. City utilities and co-ops should get help. Digital power meters should cost tenants nothing.

The Left wants to extend the energy transition to heating, storage and industry. Plans include more heat networks and large heat pumps, passive-house standards for new buildings, support for green hydrogen and strict conditions for gas power plants.

The Left wants clean energy for heating too. There should be more heat networks. New buildings should need very little energy. Gas power plants should run only for a transition period. The chemical industry should get green hydrogen.

The Left wants to set a binding carbon budget for the state that leads to climate neutrality by 2035. Every political decision is to be checked in advance for its climate impact; the party frames climate protection as a matter of justice.

The state should be climate neutral by 2035. That means it emits no more harmful gases than are absorbed. There should be a fixed limit for CO₂. New laws should be checked for their effect on the climate first.

The Left wants to oblige cities and towns to pursue climate protection and to fund this permanently through the state's fiscal equalization system. Social hardship from renovations and heating replacements is to be cushioned, and the state is to lead with its own buildings.

Cities and villages should be required to protect the climate. The state should give them lasting money for this. People with little money should get help with heating and renovation. State buildings should get solar panels.

The Left wants to redesign cities along the sponge city principle, so rainwater is stored, seeps away or evaporates. Sealed surfaces are to be opened up and infrastructure planned with water and green elements. A state subsidy program is to support municipalities.

Cities should cope better with heat and heavy rain. They should store rainwater instead of draining it away. Paved areas should be opened up again. There should be more green in cities. The state should give towns money for this.

The SPD wants to continue the energy transition while keeping energy prices affordable for businesses and households. To that end it calls for a broad cap on grid fees, a lower electricity tax and digitalized grids.

The SPD wants more power from wind and sun. Power should still be affordable. So the cost of using the power grid should be limited. The tax on electricity should also go down.

The SPD wants more of the profits from wind and solar plants to stay in the state. A state program would help municipalities invest in renewables and set up county utilities (Kreiswerke); low-income renters would get subsidies for balcony solar units.

The SPD wants towns and counties to make their own wind and solar power. The state should give them money for this. Then the profits stay in the region. Renters with little money should get help to buy small solar units for their balcony.

The SPD wants a state climate protection law with fixed pathways for cutting greenhouse gases. It is meant to make targets verifiable and give municipalities, business and society planning certainty. The burdens are to be shared in a socially fair way.

The SPD wants a climate protection law for the state. It says how much greenhouse gases must fall. That way people can check the goals. People with little money should not carry more of the burden than others.

The SPD wants to gradually set up a climate fund that pays for measures to adapt to heat, heavy rain and drought. Municipalities are to get technical and financial help with climate protection, heat planning and heat action plans.

There is more heat, heavy rain and drought. The SPD wants to build a climate fund for this. That is a pot of money for protective measures. Cities and towns should get help from the state.