Merkel May Create Energy Ministry as Switch Becomes Vital

Chancellor Angela Merkel may set up a national energy ministry as Germany’s shift from nuclear power to renewables becomes the crucial task if she’s elected for a third term in September, a key party ally said.

There will “surely be” an energy ministry or a special office in the chancellery for energy, as there was for German reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Reiner Haseloff, state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, said in an interview.