These challenges can only be mastered if policymakers, the business world, and each and every one of us are committed and act accordingly. In view of our situation, the fact that young people have resolutely taken up the issues and are out in the street demonstrating for their future cannot be appreciated highly enough. Especially as municipal energy provider, SWM is responsible for shaping the energy transition to a considerable extent. At the same time, balance must be retained. On the one hand, the transition to regenerative energy production is being consistently advanced. On the other hand, there is the crucial task, also during this transition phase, of ensuring that industry, trade and commerce, public transport and private households can rely on favorably priced supplies of power and heat.

Long before the dramatic atomic catastrophe of Fukushima and the resulting decision of the Federal Republic of Germany to phase out nuclear energy, SWM had resolved a turnaround in power generation. In the year 2008, the Renewable Energy Expansion Campaign was launched. The declared aim: By 2025, SWM intends to produce enough eco-power by its own power generation plants to cover Munich’s entire requirements. In the year 2012, the Green Heating Vision expanded the concept by a decisive building block: by 2040, SWM will cover Munich’s entire district heating requirements on a CO 2 -neutral basis. Tapping geothermal energy is a key component here. An additional element of climate protection is the expansion of green cooling, in order to replace individual air conditioning systems.