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That is not correct. The European Union had already developed plans to reduce gas imports from Russia before the attacks on the pipelines. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has presented a ten-point plan aimed at reducing dependence on Russian gas.
Germany stopped gas supplies from Russia on August 31, 2022, which was a response to European sanctions against Russia due to the war in Ukraine. The attack on the Pipelines took place afterwards on September 26, 2022.
The prices for gas internationally went up because of the war in Ukraine. The import of gas from Russia to Germany would have been stopped anyway, even if the attacks on the Nord Stream Pipelines had not taken place.
And that’s totally fine.
The share of electricity generated from renewable energies in the grid load in Germany was 56 percent in 2023 (2022: 48 percent).
Just yesterday, 7 of the most CO2-intensive coal-fired power plants in Germany were shut down forever.