Germany pivots to carbon capture and storage to cut emissions

Germany’s new government has different energy priorities from its predecessor. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s centre-right Christian Union campaigned on preserving energy security and keeping costs down. It shares the prior centre-left government’s aim to make Germany carbon neutral by 2045. But unlike its predecessor, it is more open to which technologies should pave the way there. One of these is carbon capture and storage – or CCS. Whether this is always economical, however, is another matter.

Reporting by Nathan Witkop, Editor Clean Energy Desk, Montel News. Contributors: Carsten Rolle, Director of Climate and Energy Policies, Federation of German Industries (BDI); Manfred Fischedick, Scientific Managing Director of the Wuppertal Institute.