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Energy transition: Saxon companies put pressure on state government

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Published: September 17th, 2024,
Last updated: January 30th, 2025

The signatories would like to see such events more often: Saxony’s Minister President Michael Kretschmer at the opening of a solar power plant.

More than 60 Saxon companies, municipal utilities and chambers of industry and commerce (IHK) are calling on the future government in Dresden to step up the pace of the energy transition. In an appeal presented to Table.Briefings, they call for „a sufficient market supply of electricity from renewable energies such as wind, photovoltaics and biomass at internationally competitive prices as well as the corresponding infrastructure“. In a state comparison, Saxony ranks at the bottom in terms of the expansion of renewables and is in the process of losing its advantages as an attractive economic and industrial location.

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