Incorrect statements to the economy from home were updated

Alice Wheatal regularly spreads false claims about economic and energy issues. He also met false reports of “approval color” at the ARD show to explain his plans to reduce the price of electricity.

In the current election campaign, AFD presidential candidate Alice Wheel has repeatedly commented on economic and energy issues. However, their statements are often incorrect or wrong. In Ard-Contest Confuse the color The focus was on how the AFD candidate for the Chancellor wants to solve the problems in Germany.

Essential point of home: Energy costs in Germany should be reduced. However, the planned implementation of the AFD is based on somewhat wrong claims.

Energy prices are high, but not too high

Wheell repeatedly said that there are more energy prices in Germany worldwide. That too is wrong. Energy costs are high, but not the highest worldwide. Loudly Energy -Global Petrol Prices (GPP)It regularly publishes information on national average values ​​for energy prices in retail, thereby creating a global comparison, Germany is not the first in the current energy price. In the comparison of a country, Germany is ranked 15th for 24 cents for 36.7 cents a kilowatt.

The latest comparison values ​​with data from February 10, 2025 can be determined at prices of petrol (19th place) and diesel (21st place) and heat oil prices (19th place).

One Analysis of the price of comparison portal VarivaxIn the first quarter of 2024, 147 countries were explored on the basis of data of global petrol prices, denying the home of the home, the most expensive energy price. Germany finished 9th with electricity prices and even adjusted the purchase power.

If you take into account only the most important industrialized and growing countries here, Germany topped Italy. And Data from the federal statistical office Show that Germany electricity prices are high in European comparison. In the first half of the year 2024, Germany was third in the third place for non -houses with Croatia and Hungary.

Nuclear energy is not cheap

When asked how AFD wanted to reduce the price of electricity, Wheell replied that the nuclear power plants should work again. If this is not possible, new power plants must be planned. However, Christian Glupeld, a Franhofer company, explains that re -entering a German nuclear energy leads to the fall of electric prices. SWR.

If you look at the costs of nuclear energy over the entire period, this energy production will become expensive and economically interesting, because there are high costs at the beginning and end of the life cycle of a nuclear power station, explaining, and globe.

Joe Kaiser, chairman of the Siemens Supervisory Board, agrees. “Even a nuclear power plant in the world pays economically,” he said Ard-Contest Mysberger November 27, 2024.

Since it does not pay private investors due to incomprehensible risks, including the International Energy Company, funding for power plants is usually only possible with state guarantees and loans. In one Franhofer’s fact test on nuclear power It says: “For example, about 2.5 billion euros must be spent on the cover of considerable short -term investments.”

“Irreversible”

Also, according to experts, nuclear power plants cannot operate so easily. In Germany, the last three nuclear power plant was set up 2023 – they produced loudly in 2022 Federal statistics office Six percent of the total power generation.

Theoretically, Franhofer comes to the conclusion that the eight German nuclear power plants, the removal of the eight German nuclear power plants, have not yet progressed and can be re -implemented. However, this will be related to considerable cost and time. Science and operators went here at least one to two to five years. Because of the web, power plants need safety tests, modernizations, new experts, new fuels and a regulatory structure.

In addition, there is a shortage of appropriate employees and the unwillingness of the operators. This is because German energy companies do not consider stopping the removal. George Michaels, the head of the nuclear sector in EnBW, calls “irreparable” to remove his nuclear power. He added: “We do not believe that the new building in Germany will be a solution to the questions of today’s energy supply issues.”

Nuclear power CO2- not neutral

Wheatel also said that nuclear power CO2-neutral. It is not right. The Union Ministry writes for environmental, natural protection, nuclear protection and consumer protection: “The absence of nuclear CO2 or this is not the lowest CO2 type of energy production.

Further research team “Scientists for the future” The same conclusion comes: “Taking into account the current entire energy system, nuclear power is not in any way CO2-neutral.”

Although the nuclear power plants do not release CO2 emissions in the process of electricity, then and then and the downward processes produce greenhouse gas emission. Loudly Institute for renewable energies For example, removing and carrying the required uranium, processing of fuel components or the final storage of radioactive waste. However, the information about the so -called CO2 balances is different, as there is still no experience in implementing the final camps worldwide.

Mark Z Z. Jacobson, director of Stanford University atmosphere and energy program, says that this limit is 68 to 180 grams of CO2 per kilowatt per hour – if the entire life cycle and production process are taken into account – the extraction and other variables of the uranium. The 2014 IPCC report considers 3.7 to 110 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour.

Nuclear CO2 has the low emission of the CO2 equal compared to other fossil energy production systems. However, renewable energies are significantly below. According to the Federal Environmental Office, 17.7 g of lignite power plants ensure that about 1,150 grams of CO2 is equivalent to an equal production per kW.

A fact test by the German wave As a result, a nuclear power is released than 3.5 times more CO2 light -free systems per kW of power – more than 29 times more than water power.