Munich votes for coal exit
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city鈥檚 single largest source of CO2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the municipal utility SWM. The plant accounts for around 17 percent of Munich鈥檚 total carbon emissions, klimaretter.info reports.
Stefanie Langkamp of Climate-Alliance Germany said the rest of Germany needed to follow the Munich voters鈥� lead. 鈥淭he parties discussing a coalition government in Berlin must set an end date for coal-fired power production,鈥� Langkamp said. A coalition agreement that failed to specify a coal exit would 鈥渄odge responsibility and interests of a large part of our citizenship,鈥� she added.
In a separate article in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung, Heiner Effern writes that Munich鈥檚 mayor says he was going to ask Germany鈥檚 Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) to evaluate an early shutdown of the plant. The BNetzA ultimately decides which plants can be taken off the grid without threatening the system鈥檚 stability.
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