Coal state energy minister says transition in heating needs more attention

The modernisation and decarbonisation of Germany’s heating sector has enormous carbon emissions reduction potential that needs to be tapped more, the energy minister of the German coal state of Brandenburg, Albrecht Gerber, says in an article carried by the public broadcaster rbb24. “The energy transition is more than a power sector transition,” Gerber says, referring to the debate over the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Heating accounts for more than half of Germany’s energy consumption, while power use only accounts for one fifth, Gerber says, stressing that the potential of geothermal energy should be explored more intensively.

Read the article in German here.

For background, see CLEW’s Commission watch – Managing Germany’s coal phase-out.