Lektionen aus Lützerath: Kohleausstieg und Erneuerbare Energien statt Lobby-Deals (Pao-Yu Oei)

He was a authoritative scientific voice in the fight to preserve the village of Lützerath: Pao-Yu Oei, Professor of Sustainable Energy Transition Economics at Europa-Universität Flensburg and head of the "Energy and Environmental Management" (EUM) course. Together with colleagues, he has calculated that coal under Lützerath is not needed to guarantee Germany's security of electricity supply. The mining of lignite under Lützerath made neither economic sense nor could it be justified in terms of climate policy, says Pao-Yu Oei. For him, Lützerath is therefore a symbol of a misguided energy and climate policy: "This is a policy that gives greater weight to the business profit of a single company such as RWE than to the economic costs to society of the advancing climate crisis. This crisis is the wall towards which we are currently hurtling, Oei says, and argues for a rapid expansion of renewable energies. A complete coal phase-out is technically and economically feasible by 2030, he says, and a switch to 100% renewables by 2040. Why the fear of a deindustrialization of Germany by renewables is unfounded, why neither LNG terminals nor nuclear power plants are steps in the right direction, which political measures are needed instead and why Pao-Yu Oei considers the socio-political commitment to an energy transition to be compatible with the neutrality requirement of science - this is what the member of the "scientist for future" talks about with EUF press officer Kathrin Fischer in the seventeenth episode of the "Conversations on the State of the World". Seventeenth episode of the series "Conversations on the state of the world" https://euf.li/lf63n Subscribe to us: https://euf.li/gv2x9 Conversation available as a podcast: https://anchor.fm/euf or on your platform In conversation: Prof. Dr. Pao-Yu Oei, Professor of "Sustainable Energy Transition Economics" and Kathrin Fischer, press officer of the EUF. Content: 00:00:00 Welcome 00:02:15 The fight for Lützerath and the calculations about the coal under the village 00:08:30 Main problems Energy crisis 2023: Too little hydropower in the Alps and cooling water shortage at France's nuclear power plants 00:12:30 The also internationally fatal symbolism of Lützerath 00:19:00 The "backroom deal" with RWE and the ongoing fight for Lützerath 00:26:30 Lützerath, the 2022 energy crisis and the consequences for the Green Party 00:24:00 Radicalization of protest and criticism of protest 00:36:30 Climate protest must keep focus on climate issues 00:39:30 We have no time: climate protection is without alternative 00:43:00 Global distribution of the remaining CO2 budget 00:46:00 Fear of deindustrialization and the need for behavior change 00:52:30 Gas as a bridge energy source is neither timely nor necessary 00:56:00 Renewables are "freedom energies": fossil fuels are not good for security of supply 01:00:00 Shortage of skilled workers, lack of materials, too much bureaucracy, lobbying: What prevents the expansion of renewable energies 01:03:00 Accelerating the energy transition doesn't need new technologies, but skilled workers and political pressure 01:06:00 Speed limit, the study situation and Germany's individual concept of freedom 01:09:00 Climate crisis and capacity expansion: the double challenge of the global south 01:13:00 Value chain must be shifted to the Global South 01:16:00 How to promote transformative political-economic change in the Global South? 01:19:00 Scientific neutrality and socio-political positioning: how does that go together? 01:23:00 The role of universities in heated social discourse. 01:25:00 Adherence to the 1.5 degree limit as a final wish Energy and Environmental Management course: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/eum EUF website: https://www.uni-flensburg.de Facebook:   / europauniflensburg   Instagram:   / uni.flensburg   #lützerath #coal phaseout #climateprotection #renewable #climatechange #endcoal #fossilexit