Lausitzer Revier: Political Refusal of Reality and the Planned Exit Coal

Anyone who looks at the current energy policy will come across a remarkable mixture of contradictions, wishful thinking and dangerous ignorance of economic and infrastructural realities. To rely on natural gas power plants in Lusatia of all places while at the same time the dismantling of the natural gas network is being pushed ahead politically, is not a strategic plan, but an expression of no-needsactivism. Here, no thought is being considered, but reactions are not taken into account, regardless of the long-term consequences for security of supply, industrial stability and regional value creation.

A fuel without a reliable basis

Natural gas is not stable, nor reliably calculable. The supply chains are fragile, geopolitical tensions and can be influenced at any time by external interests. Anyone who relies on this energy source makes themselves dependent on a dependency that is neither controllable nor responsible. In addition, economically stronger countries are willing to rise higher pricespay and thus dominate the market. The result is a displacement competition in which regions like Lusatia inevitably lose out. It is a naive illusion to believe that a safe and affordable energy supply can be maintained under these conditions in the long term.

the absurd dismantling with simultaneous expansion

The situation is particularly grotesque by the parallel promotion of the natural gas network dismantling. On the one hand, infrastructures are being reduced, and new dependencies are to be created. This is not a transformation process, but a political zigzag course that creates uncertainty and devalues investments. Companies need predictability, no contradictory signals.Anyone who plans power plants today must be able to rely on the necessary infrastructure to still exist tomorrow. This self-evidence is readily abandoned here.

Lusatia and its ignored strengths

While politically unsafe concepts are being held, the obvious solution is literally under the region’s feet. Lausitz has its own resources that can be used independently of global markets. Lignite from the Lausitzer Revier is available, calculable and can be used immediately. Instead of using this strength, it is ignored for ideological reasons.It would make economic sense to electricity this fuel on site and to market both the energy and the resource itself. This creates jobs, secures income and strengthens regional independence.

Energy as the foundation of modern economy

The importance of a stable energy supply is systematically underestimated. Modern technologies are energy-hungry. Cryptocurrencies, complex data centers, the development of new alloys and the entire digital infrastructure require constant and reliable energy supply. Without this basis, not only part of the economy breaks away, but the entire technologicalDevelopment stalls. Anyone who relies on uncertain and expensive energy sources here endangers the competitiveness of entire sectors.

Ideology does not replace a strategy

What is emerging in Lusatia is not progress, but a step backwards, disguised as a future project. Instead of acting pragmatically and using existing resources sensibly, a political line is followed that has more to do with symbolism than with reality. A functioning energy policy must be in terms of availability, economy and security of supplyorient, not to short-term moods or ideological specifications. However, the current development shows the opposite: a renunciation of rationality in favor of a risky experiment with an uncertain outcome.