Energy policy
EU draft: Nuclear power could be classified as “green”
According to a draft, the EU could classify certain nuclear and natural gas power plants as “green” energy sources. A draft proposal by the Commission provides for investments in nuclear power plants to be viewed as sustainable within the meaning of the EU taxonomy if they can ensure the disposal of radioactive waste. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke criticized the plans for nuclear power as “absolutely wrong”. As a “transition technology”, natural gas power plants can receive the sustainability label if they remain below certain CO2 limit values, replace a more environmentally harmful system and are approved by 2030. The EU wants to publish its taxonomy in January, a catalog of “green” investment criteria. Certain technologies receive a label as sustainable and harmless, so that financial flows are increasingly directed into green technologies.
A draft proposal by the Commission, which was viewed by the Archyde.com news agency, provides for investments in nuclear power plants to be viewed as sustainable within the meaning of the EU taxonomy