Germany shut down its last three nuclear power plants on Saturday, ending a six-decade program as Berlin implements a plan to switch to entirely renewable electricity production by 2035.
The final shutdown, scheduled for the end of 2022, was pushed back last summer to this year after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine prompted Germany to halt fossil fuel imports from Russia and raised concerns about the security of energy supplies.
Bild am Sonntag newspaper said Sunday that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder wanted to ask the federal government to amend the nuclear exit law to allow the state to continue operating plants under its jurisdiction.
“Until the crisis ends and the transition to renewable energies succeeds, we have to use every form of energy until the end of the decade,” said Soeder.
In this land is the Isar II plant, managed by the German utility company E.ON, which is a 1,400 megawatt plant, capable of supplying the equivalent of a metropolis.
Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said the authorization for Isar II had expired and restarting its reactor would require a new license.
“It is important to accept the current state of science and technology and respect the decision of the German Bundestag,” Lemke said in a statement sent to Reuters.
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