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The AGFW's seven election touchstones are very easy to remember. "Energy transition in the heating market", "Efficiency First: Expansion and modernization of CHP", "Seizing the opportunities of district heating", "Secure and cost-effective power supply with CHP", "Accelerating the heating transition", "More renewable energies and waste heat in district heating systems" and "Integrated urban development only with district heating".

Once upon a time, there was a country that had an electricity grid. It belonged to the "Big Five", i.e. to the then Bayernwerk, VIAG, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall groups. All five actually belonged to those who had once paid for their lines with their "fees": In other words, the electricity customers. Even if only somehow via their villages, towns, districts or federal states.

How economical is my heating or cooling network, my heat or cold storage system? For someone who plans grids and storage systems, this positive question is logical: you want to set up grids that supply heat reliably and for as long as possible. And the operator should generate an adequate return.

The nuclear fuel tax for nuclear power plant operators is null and void. When the Federal Constitutional Court (BVG) branded the associated "Nuclear Fuel Tax Act" (KernbrStG) as unconstitutional on June 7, the German government was astonished. However, this BVG ruling is in fact just another clear sign: The whole "energy turnaround" in Germany does not deserve this name. It is merely a gigantic patchwork.

At Intersolar Europe, the protagonists of the solar industry are shining brightly. After several years of downward trends, things are clearly on the up again.

From the end of the 1990s, Germany was at the forefront of the EU in "privatizing" its electricity transmission grids. In other words, the federal and state governments sold the extra-high-voltage lines, which had previously been financed by citizens through electricity prices, to "private investors", including the Dutch royal family, Belgian municipalities and Ärzteversorgung Nordrhein-Westfalen.

In its study "The energy transition needs a digital market design", the Berlin-based Stiftung Neue Verantwortung e.V. (SNV) calls for, among other things, a radical rethink of exchange pricing for electricity. If the medium-term goal of "100 percent renewable energy supply for Germany" is to become a reality rather than a platitude, there can be no "business as usual".

So far, the much-vaunted "energy transition has only been an electricity transition. But we also want a heat transition."

Draft bill excludes storable plant-based energy.

"Absolutely necessary for the energy transition." These are the words of all those who are in favor of the massive expansion of the German extra-high-voltage electricity grids: politicians, business representatives, transmission grid managers.

Is the most important future project in our highly industrialized country failing?

As a family entrepreneur in this sector, the paradigm shift in energy supply is a responsibility and a matter close to my heart. I am independent of political parties and corporations and am not a lobbyist. My contributions to this important topic are based exclusively on 30 years of sound experience in the development, engineering implementation and operation of highly efficient decentralized energy systems.