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The Free Voters, new coalition partners in Bavaria, Germany鈥檚 southern economic powerhouse state, reject important grid expansion plans that are meant to improve the distribution of electricity from renewable power sources across the country, Claudia Henzler writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淲e need to re-launch the Energiewende [Germany鈥檚 energy transition]鈥� and 鈥渕ake it a top priority to avoid grid expansion so that we鈥檒l need as little new lines possible,鈥� said Free Voters head and new Bavarian economy minister Hubert Aiwanger during a visit by federal economy minister Peter Altmaier to one of the planned construction sites for new power transmission lines in Bavaria. The Free Voters party leader said that grids had to become more flexible through digitalisation and called for expanding decentralised power production with more renewable sources built near where it is consumed. This clashes with policies of the Free Voters鈥� bigger coalition partner CSU, which had introduced greater minimum distances from residential areas for new wind turbines, thereby keeping wind power expansion down in the state. Federal minister Altmaier argued that while more renewable capacity was desirable, the construction of major power lines could not be avoided.

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Find background in the article New 鈥淧ower Grid Action Plan鈥� to accelerate network development, the dossier The energy transition and Germany鈥檚 power grid and the factsheet Facts on the German state elections in Bavaria.