Schwerin (dpa/mv) – Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) sees Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in ensuring a secure supply of electricity and gas in a nationwide important role. This affects the expansion of renewable energies as well as the opening of new transport routes for gas or oil in a transitional period. “A reliable and affordable energy supply for the citizens and the economy has top priority,” emphasized Schwesig at the start of her Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania tour on Monday in Schwerin.
The country, which already produces twice as much green electricity as it consumes and thus also supplies other regions, wants to noticeably advance the use of wind and sun. On the other hand, the construction of two terminals for liquid gas near Lubmin (Vorpommern-Greifwald district) would create alternatives to the purchase of Russian natural gas via the Baltic Sea pipeline. “We relied on Nord Stream and Russian gas, not to do Putin a favor, but to ensure that there is secure and affordable energy here. With Putin’s brutal war of aggression, that’s no longer possible,” explained Schwesig.
Lubmin, as the previous landing point of the Russian-German Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 1, offers itself as a receiving point for liquid gas with the existing hinterland connection to the national gas network. The federal government gave the green light for the construction of two terminals there. “We are working flat out on both projects in order to be able to feed in additional gas,” said the head of government. A working group of the state government is dealing with the topic and is helping to ensure that there will be a speedy approval process within the framework of the rule of law. One of the two terminals is to be financed privately, receive a tanker as a landing point and be operational by the end of this year. The initiator is the company Deutsche Regas.
