Berlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the brand new Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob wish to work collectively to discover a manner out of the power disaster. “We should search options throughout the group. Not solely with regard to the provision of pure gasoline, but additionally with regard to all different power sources,” Golob stated in Berlin, which is the place his first journey overseas in his new workplace took him. The left-liberal profession changer and entrepreneur was elected prime minister of the EU nation in Could.
Golob appealed for extra gasoline and long-distance pipelines to be in-built Europe to pave the best way for a inexperienced transition in Europe. “This can enable us to attach the wind within the north with the solar within the south, and to create a really robust and steady system, a unified European system,” he advised journalists, in response to a translation.
Scholz stated on the joint press convention that every part needed to be carried out to scale back dependencies in power provides. “This implies constructing power infrastructures that may allow us to acquire oil and gasoline from different sources within the brief time period. But in addition and above all it’s about making progress in direction of supplying ourselves with renewable energies,” the chancellor stated. “Increasing wind energy and photo voltaic power performs a significant function for our two nations, and we’ve got mentioned this very fastidiously.”