What do the parties in Thuringia say on climate and energy?

The AfD wants to repeal Thuringia's climate law and change other state rules that it believes harm the economy. The state should not favor particular technologies. Businesses should get freedom and planning security.

The AfD wants to scrap Thuringia's climate law. It says such rules hurt businesses. The state should not favor any one technology. The best products should win in the market.

The AfD opposes building any more wind turbines, especially in forests. It also rejects solar installations on farmland or on largely unspoiled land. It argues that wind power harms nature and the landscape and cannot provide a reliable power supply.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines. This applies especially to forests. It also rejects solar plants on farmland. The party says wind turbines harm nature and the landscape.

The AfD wants to end state support for renewable energy, such as guaranteed purchase prices, and abolish its priority access to the power grid. It rejects the SuedLink, SuedOstLink and P540 power lines. It argues that the energy transition has raised costs and made supply less secure.

Wind and solar power get fixed prices and go first in the grid today. The AfD wants to end both. It also rejects big new power lines through Thuringia. The party says the energy transition makes power costly and less secure.

The AfD wants electricity in Thuringia to come mainly from gas-fired plants and calls for Germany to return quickly to nuclear power. Natural gas should again be bought from Russia, and the Nord Stream pipelines should be repaired. It rejects fracking and is skeptical about hydrogen.

The AfD wants power to come mainly from gas. Germany should use nuclear power again. Gas should come from Russia again. The Nord Stream pipelines should be repaired for that. The party rejects fracking. That is a way to get gas out of deep rock.

The AfD wants to repeal Thuringia's climate law and cut energy-saving requirements for buildings and appliances to a minimum. It rejects the federal ban on conventional oil, gas and wood heating systems. It calls the ban a disproportionate intrusion on property and freedom and a driver of costs.

The AfD wants to repeal Thuringia's climate law. Nobody should be forced to save energy in their home. The party also rejects the ban on older heating systems. It says the rules cost too much and interfere with property.

The AfD rejects the carbon price charged since 2021, which it calls a price-driving tax. In its view, climate policy leads to the deindustrialization of Western countries and endangers the auto industry and its suppliers in Thuringia.

Since 2021, emitting CO2 has cost money in Germany. The AfD is against this. It says this makes everything more expensive. In its view, climate policy hurts industry and car companies in Thuringia.

The AfD fundamentally rejects the EU's decision to phase out combustion engines and calls for openness to all technologies. In its view, the ban puts Thuringian carmakers and suppliers at a disadvantage in international competition.

The EU wants to ban new cars with combustion engines. The AfD is against this. It says the ban hurts car companies in Thuringia. Every technology should stay allowed.

The BSW rejects a blanket permission for wind turbines in forests. Local governments and regions, together with forest owners and businesses, should decide for themselves whether and where wind power is built, since in the program's view they know local needs best.

The BSW does not want wind turbines allowed in all forests. Towns should decide for themselves. They know best what is needed locally. Forest owners and companies should have a say too.

The BSW wants to cut energy costs in Thuringia, which it considers too high compared with other states, partly by equalizing grid fees across states. Small and mid-sized businesses struggling with energy costs should get targeted support, and citizens should share in the profits from power generation.

The BSW wants cheaper energy in Thuringia. Grid fees should be the same in all states. Small companies should get money to make their own power. Citizens should share in profits from green power. Farmers should get help making solar and biogas power.

The BSW wants to achieve climate and environmental protection mainly through technology-neutral innovations that can be implemented quickly, and to make Thuringia a leader in storage technologies for renewable energy. In the program's view, rash measures endanger the economy and public support for climate action; it rejects red tape imposed in the name of climate protection.

The BSW wants to protect the climate with new technology. No technology should be ruled out. Thuringia should develop good storage for green power. The BSW rejects many climate rules. Climate protection should not make life more expensive.

The CDU wants to slow the rise of the carbon price and cut the electricity tax to the European minimum. At the federal level it backs the introduction of the Klimageld (climate dividend) so that carbon pricing revenue flows back to households.

The CDU wants energy to stay affordable. The price on CO₂ should rise more slowly. The tax on electricity should fall sharply. People should get a climate payment. This is money from the CO₂ price that the state gives back.

The CDU wants to reform grid fees and make the fees for regional distribution grids uniform nationwide. At the same time, local grids are to be upgraded, storage is to be researched and promoted, and generating one's own electricity is to become easier.

The CDU wants to share the costs of power grids equally across Germany. Local power grids should become stronger. The CDU wants to support power storage. Companies and people should find it easier to make and share their own power.

The CDU sees hydrogen as a key part of the energy transition in Thuringia and wants to support research and application. The gas network is to be kept and made usable for hydrogen; biogas and hydropower plants are to remain and in part be expanded.

The CDU wants to use more hydrogen. The gas network should stay and later carry hydrogen. Biogas plants should stay and there should be more of them. Hydropower plants should also be kept.

The CDU wants Thuringia to generate as much electricity from renewable sources as it consumes, on balance. Instead of land-area requirements, it calls for generation targets, and all emission-free forms of energy are to receive equal support.

Thuringia should make as much power as it uses. The power should come from renewable sources. The CDU does not want fixed rules for land area. It wants goals for the amount of power. All clean forms of energy should get the same support.

The CDU wants to make greater use of existing wind and solar sites with modern equipment before opening up new land. Wind power is to be expanded only with local residents' support and avoided in forest areas.

Old wind turbines and solar plants should be replaced with new ones. This is called repowering. New plants make more power on the same land. Only after that should new land be used. The CDU wants to avoid wind turbines in forests.

The CDU wants to make energy efficiency in buildings and grids the guiding principle of the relevant rules. Businesses and households are to get incentives to cut their energy costs through retrofits and energy savings.

Buildings and grids should use less energy. The CDU wants to help companies and households with upgrades. There should be cheap loans for this. People who renovate their home should get a bigger tax break.

The CDU wants more citizen energy cooperatives and a legal requirement that municipalities share in the revenues of local wind farms and ground-mounted solar plants. The aim is to keep the value created by energy generation in Thuringia.

Citizens should be able to take part in making power. There are cooperatives for this. The CDU wants more of them. Towns should get money from wind farms and solar plants. A law should require this.

The CDU wants to expand solar power mainly on roofs and land already in use, including through a loan program for 50,000 roofs. The state is to lead with its own buildings and make its administration fully carbon-neutral.

The CDU wants more solar panels on roofs. There should be cheap loans for this. Parking lots and land along highways should also make power. The state should put solar panels on its own buildings. The state administration should stop emitting CO₂.

The CDU wants to push for restarting all nuclear power plants that are still operable. It cites security of supply, stable prices, and securing baseload power as reasons.

The CDU wants to switch nuclear power plants back on. This applies to all that still work. It says this makes the power supply safe and prices stable. New kinds of nuclear plants should also be researched and used.

The Left considers moving away from fossil fuels and the combustion engine necessary. It wants to pair that shift with social protection so that no one is disadvantaged, such as people in villages or with little money.

The Left wants to move away from oil, gas and coal. It also wants to move away from the combustion engine. Nobody should lose out because of this. That includes people in villages who need a car. It also includes people with little money.

The Left wants to end the use of fossil fuels and relies on a state-owned energy company. Together with municipal utilities, it is to combine affordable local and district heating with renewable energy.

The Left wants to move away from coal, oil and gas. For this, the state should have its own energy company. It should work together with local utilities. Heat and power should be affordable and come from clean energy.

The Left wants to open up roofs, railway embankments, parking lots and highway shoulders for solar installations. Agrivoltaics, meaning solar panels above farmed land, is to become standard after a pilot phase. The state would also subsidize balcony solar units.

The Left wants more power from the sun. Solar panels should go on big roofs and parking lots. Good farmland should stay farmland. Solar panels above fields should become normal. The state should support small solar units for balconies.

The Left wants to create a transformation fund for the energy and heating transition. It would be financed through borrowing by state-owned entities. According to the program, a state contribution of 50 million euros could mobilize up to 700 million euros for climate-friendly infrastructure.

The Left wants a new pot of money for climate protection. The state should be able to take out loans for it. 50 million euros should turn into up to 700 million euros. The money is for rebuilding villages and towns. For example, there should be more district heating.

The Left wants a law that gives residents and municipalities a share of the earnings from wind turbines. The money is to stay in the region and raise support for expansion. The party rejects a blanket ban on wind turbines in forests.

Wind turbines make profits. The Left wants towns and residents to get part of them. Towns can use the money for daycare, schools or roads. This should make more people accept wind turbines. Wind turbines in forests should not be banned completely.

The Left wants to carry out the heating transition through local and district heating networks that municipalities or counties run for the common good. The networks would run on renewable energy and bill only the actual costs. Where networks make no sense, municipal utilities would install heat pumps and sell the heat.

Many homes need a new heating system. The Left does not want to leave people alone with this. Cities and towns should build heat networks. These networks deliver heat to many homes. The heat should come from renewable energy and be affordable.

The Left wants Thuringia to be supplied entirely with renewable energy in the foreseeable future. Power should be generated where it is needed whenever possible. Storage, citizen energy cooperatives and the conversion of energy-intensive companies would be supported for this.

Thuringia should use only renewable energy. That is energy from sun, wind, water, the earth's heat and biomass. The energy should be made nearby. The Left wants to support storage for power and heat. Citizens should be able to start their own energy projects together.

The Left wants to bring the grids for electricity, district heating and possibly gas back into public ownership across the board. In the medium term, generation and storage would also be in the hands of the federal government, states, municipalities and publicly controlled companies. A state-owned energy company would support the return to municipal ownership.

The Left wants the energy grids to belong to the state or the towns. This applies to electricity, district heating and maybe gas. Later, making energy should also be public. The state should set up its own energy company for this.

The Left wants to use green hydrogen as one building block for cutting CO2 emissions in electricity, heating, transport, industry and agriculture. Battery trains are to run on rail lines without overhead wires, and buses and municipal vehicles are to switch to batteries or fuel cells.

The Left wants to use green hydrogen. This is a gas made with clean electricity. It should help cut CO2. Trains should run on batteries on some lines. Buses should get new engines too.

The Left wants to campaign at the federal level for a windfall profits tax so that crisis and speculative profits of energy companies go to the public purse. It also calls for a new grid fee structure so that electricity in the east and north no longer costs more than in the west and south.

Some companies earn a lot of money from high energy prices. The Left wants to tax these extra profits. The money should help towns and smaller companies. Electricity should also cost the same everywhere in Germany.

The Left wants to treat environmental, social and health policy together because, according to the program, people on low incomes suffer more from noise and heat. Municipalities and social institutions are to get support, and heat protection plans are to be drawn up.

Poor people often suffer more from heat and noise. The Left wants to change that. Everyone should be able to live in healthy surroundings. Towns should get help with this. There should be plans to protect people from heat.

The SPD wants to strengthen municipalities and their Stadtwerke (municipal utilities) as carriers of the energy transition and have energy generated, stored and traded locally. Planning for generation plants, storage and grids is to become simpler and clearer. In the party's view, this lowers costs permanently and boosts competitiveness.

The SPD wants to strengthen city-owned utilities. Energy should be made and stored locally. New plants and power lines should be easier to plan. The region should use more of its own green power. This should lower costs.

The SPD wants to cut heating energy use through renovation and modern technology and cover it with renewables. Buildings in Thuringia are to be climate-neutral by 2040. Heating is to remain affordable for all income levels.

The SPD wants buildings to need less energy for heating. By 2040, buildings should no longer harm the climate. Heating should stay affordable for everyone. People who replace their heating system should get money from the state.

The SPD wants to revise the state climate law, back the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality with concrete steps and introduce an annual greenhouse gas budget in the long term. Climate action is to be socially balanced; among other things, the party calls for a social climate payment from the federal government.

The SPD wants to change Thuringia's climate law. The law should name exact steps for fewer greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases make the Earth warmer. People with little money should get relief when it comes to climate action.

The SPD wants to speed up the expansion of renewable energy, especially near industrial plants with high energy demand. Energy is to be produced regionally and in a decentralized way where possible; municipalities are to get money and advice for this, and citizens are to be able to take part through cooperatives.

The SPD wants more power from wind and sun, and faster. Power should be made where people need it. Towns and cities should get money and advice for this. Citizens should be able to produce energy together.

The SPD sees municipal utilities as a mainstay of the energy transition and wants to give them and the municipalities more support for local and district heating. New heat sources from renewable energy are to be tapped, including deep geothermal energy.

The SPD wants to give municipal utilities more support for heating. Municipal utilities are city-owned companies for power and heat. Heat should come from renewable sources more often. This includes heat from deep in the earth.

The SPD wants to pass a Thuringian solar expansion law and advance the use of solar energy. A state program is to open up more areas for photovoltaics, mainly on roofs, on facades and in combination with farming.

The SPD wants a new law for solar energy in Thuringia. There should be more solar panels, mainly on roofs and walls of buildings. Panels should also be possible on fields. Large solar parks should be built mainly next to roads and rail lines.

The SPD commits to expanding wind power, which it regards as the most important renewable energy source in Thuringia. It rejects blanket bans, for example on turbines in forests; new turbines are to meet high environmental and nature conservation standards.

The SPD wants more wind turbines in Thuringia. The party sees wind as the most important renewable energy. It rejects a general ban on wind turbines in forests. Nature should be protected when turbines are built.

The SPD wants to generate more green electricity, mainly from wind, and to designate 2.2 percent of the state's land for wind power. The expansion is to happen in dialogue with local residents, and municipalities and residents are to share in the revenue.

The SPD wants more electricity from wind. For this, 2.2 percent of the land in Thuringia should be set aside for wind turbines. Local people should have a say. Towns and residents should get a share of the profits.

The SPD wants to turn Thuringia into a hub for electricity storage and to build up its own production of green hydrogen. The state is to be connected to the national hydrogen core network, which the program describes as a key industrial policy decision.

The SPD wants more storage for electricity in Thuringia. That way there is power even without wind or sun. Thuringia should also make green hydrogen. This is a gas produced with green electricity. Thuringia should be connected to the big hydrogen network.

The SPD calls for a temporary Brückenstrompreis (bridge electricity price) to support energy-intensive companies during the energy transition and to relieve consumers. For low-income households it backs a bonus for replacing heating systems and wants to rely more on support than on obligations in heating.

The SPD wants a bridge electricity price. This is a cheaper power price for a limited time. It should help companies that use a lot of power. Households with little money should get a bonus for replacing their heating. Advice on saving electricity should also stay.