The "Easter package", which became the summer package but still remains a mature achievement, contains many things that Germany had to wait a long time for in vain.

The abolition of the EEG surcharge is part of this, the simplified expansion of wind and solar power, better participation by the municipalities and the activation of the federal states.

Russia's war against Ukraine, with its collateral damage in terms of energy policy, contributed to the fact that the traffic light coalition was able to give special consecration to the basic law of its energy agenda.

In the future, renewable energies will not only be in the "overriding public interest" but will also serve "public safety".

That should probably mean: contradiction is pointless, bioelectricity is the first duty of the citizen.

Robert Habeck hasn't quite reached his goal yet.

The FDP successfully defended itself against the announcement that all electricity would be produced in a climate-neutral manner by 2035.

In the Bundestag, however, the Economics Minister was right to point to the inconsistencies of the Merkel era, hoping that hardly anyone would think of his second coalition partner, the SPD, and even less of the many Green environment ministers in the federal states.

Habeck is now in a glass house

Even the targets weakened by the FDP do not prevent Habeck from sitting in a glass house.

His criticism that climate policy decisions without the right measures would have left Germany out in the rain could now also catch up with the traffic light coalition.

The expansion targets for renewable energies are gigantic.

Speed, power requirements and base load will certainly still be discussed frequently.

In the depths of the justification for the law, it is coyly stated that there is a "series of uncertainties".

The Bundestag dealt with one of them in the evening.

Coal-fired power plants are needed because German energy policy is going from bad to worse in the gas emergency.

It will not be the last time that German energy policy is capricious.

Then hopefully not with coal again.