Ukraine war: How Germany ended reliance on Russian gas

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine forced Germany to cut its dependence on gas from the east - and fast.

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Not only are the country's gas stores full; the result, in part, of a frantic - and expensive - buying operation on the world's markets. Germany is rightly notorious for its ponderous bureaucracy; this kind of project would normally take years, but the authorities slashed away at red tape to enable completion in under 200 days.Russia slashed its supplies of gas to Europe following the invasion of Ukraine

"If we don't get any gas, we have to shut down the oven," says Ernst Buchow as we stand in his brick factory a half hour drive from Wilhelmshaven. Today, according to the federal energy network agency, Germany's managing without Russian gas. But, to avoid shortages over the winter, its experts say LNG terminals must come online at the start of next year and that gas consumption must be reduced by 20%.Germany's an economic heavyweight; what it wants, it often gets. Its new-found appetite for liquified natural gas is intensifying global demand.

 

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