Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Strong | 2G Energy AG offers a generally clear picture of its climate-related advocacy. The company explains that it “set itself the task of building up a network across party lines in order to influence the drafting of laws and funding frameworks in the interests of CHP technology,” and describes how it lobbies: it hosts senior policymakers at its headquarters, joins official delegation trips (for example accompanying the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia to Japan), and works through industry bodies such as the NRW Renewable Energies Association, the German Renewable Energies Association and Cogen Europe. By naming individual office-holders like Klara Geywitz, Mona Neubaur and Hendrik Wüst, it makes the targets of those engagements explicit, demonstrating a high level of transparency about its lobbying channels and audiences. The company is equally explicit about the policy outcomes it seeks, calling for “natural gas-fired combined heat and power generation to be recognized as secure, decentralized power plant capacity,” for gas-fired CHP units running on biomethane or hydrogen to “play a fundamental role in supply security and decarbonization,” and for stronger support of sector coupling through the integration of CHP systems with large heat pumps. However, while it makes clear that its lobbying centres on combined heat and power and related funding frameworks, it does not name the specific laws, regulations or legislative proposals it has engaged with, limiting the precision of its policy disclosure. Overall, the company provides strong insight into how and why it lobbies on climate issues, though the exact policy instruments remain generally described rather than specifically identified. | 3 |