Jürgen Thumann is the head of BDI, the national federation of German industry. Talking to us during the European Business Summit he emphazised on the work already done in German industry regarding renewables. Environment Technologies will provide as much employments as car and steelindustry in the near future.
The aim of the European Union to bring down CO2 emissions drastically until 2020 by at least 20 percent is a great opportunity for German industry, Thumann added, for the industry to show off what already is developed or in development at the moment.
What the BDI thinks about energy policy:
Sustainable economic policy aims at efficient useof energy and raw materials. Together with its member associations, the BDI devises concepts for a both sustainable and cost-effective supply of energy that is also environmentally sound. The BDI plays an active role in the liberalisation of the European energy markets. Infrastructure and telecommunications systems, as well as innovative services, are Germany’s strategic basis as an industrial location.
The BDI thus paves the way for the information society. It is the task of the Energy Policy / Telecommunications Policy Department to help create the framework to strengthen Germany’s competitiveness on these markets.
Because the fact is that about 50 percent of the electricity production required for the base load is provided by nuclear energy. This base load – the electricity needed round-the-clock every day, for industrial production in particular – cannot, in the foreseeable future, be economically replaced in Germany by regenerative energy, combined heat and power, or savings in electricity consumption.
The answer to this question is vital for securing the energy supply for Germany as a business location at competitive prices. And on top of that, there is the fact that without nuclear energy, we will hardly be able to fulfil our obligations to protect the climate", says BDI President Juergen R. Thumann.
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