“We don’t have to worry about the next few years.” The head of the energy group RWE, Markus Krebber, does not see the security of supply of electricity in Germany at risk. “There is still enough electricity,” says the manager in an interview with stern and the business magazine “Capital”. However, it is important for the future to build hydrogen-capable gas power plants that can compensate for the lack of wind or sun for renewable energies.
In the conversation, Krebber rejected the demands of the Union and the FDP for the continued operation of German nuclear power plants. This is “not the relevant question”. “We shouldn’t burn so much political capital for it,” says the 50-year-old RWE CEO. He believes that the decision to end the existing reactors is a “final decision”.
Krebber gives a cautious all-clear for consumers. He assumes that the prices for electricity have now reached a “new normal level” of 35 to 40 cents per kilowatt hour. Falling electricity prices are only to be expected in a few years.
With a view to the consequences of the energy crisis triggered by the Russian attack on Ukraine, the RWE boss says: “Germany did almost everything right in the energy crisis. But to believe that we did everything to master the next crisis is wrong . We’re not through yet.”
You can read what Markus Krebber means by that, how he feels about the expansion of the LNG terminals and how he assesses the climate protests surrounding the lignite opencast mine in Lützerath and elsewhere in the full interview with stern PLUS or in the current issue of stern (from Thursday wherever there are magazines, and can be ordered here or as an ePaper).
