In the near future, the dependence of Germany on Russian gas will only grow. On this on Tuesday, July 4, writes the agency Bloomberg. According to the publication, Germany will not be able to switch to renewable energy without using blue fuel from Russia.

Berlin intends to solve a number of issues in the energy sector. The main one is to reduce by 2025 g. The volume of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by 40% compared with 1990 levels. After the federal elections that will be held this September, the new government can submit a program for the closure of coal-fired power plants, which now account for 40% of all electricity production in the country, notes Bloomberg.

The strategic goal of Berlin is the transition to renewable energy sources by 2050. To accomplish this task, the German authorities urgently need Russian blue fuel.

"Apart from Russia, there are not so many places in the world where Germany can quickly get a lot of gas," says director of the natural gas research program at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Jonathan Stern.

According to the industry consultant of the consulting company Wood Mackenzie, based in London, fuel from Russia accounts for about 40% of the total gas supply to Germany. By 2025 year. Russia will occupy half of the German gas market.

The Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project will also allow Gazprom to supply fuel to other European countries, making the Federal Republic of Germany an even more important center for its spread throughout the continent. Russia already supplies more than 20 countries with gas, which is used in power plants, for heating homes and producing chemicals.

And transportation of fuel through the "Nord Stream" is 40% cheaper than through the territory of Ukraine, calculated in Wood Mackenzie.

Experts from HSBC Holdings say that in the next 5 years, a fifth of all energy in Germany will account for gas. As noted on June 15 in Berlin, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Alexander Medvedev, in the long term, Europe will need new volumes of imported gas from reliable suppliers, and "Nord Stream" is a "lifebuoy" for Europeans.

According to Stephan Rolle, the head of the department of gas and oil markets of the German Ministry of Finance, gas is "only a transit technology" that allows Germany to solve its climate problems, and "Nord Stream-2" "definitely will be an additional option" to increase fuel imports.

Bloomberg recalls that around the expansion of the international gas project, there are currently heated debates. On his side is the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, against - some of the European allies of Berlin and Washington, who intended to tighten sanctions against energy companies working with Russia.

In addition, Nord Stream 2 is confronted by people living near Grafsvald (the land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, an area that Merkel represents in Parliament). It is planned to enter the pipe into the gas transmission system of Germany.

Local residents, meanwhile, sent the authorities about 160 complaints, plus, it will be necessary to eliminate the consequences of two shipwrecks of Swedish ships in the 18th century. The hearings on the project will begin already on July 17.

Earlier, on June 26, 2017. , The heads of the energy departments of the EU countries did not provide the European Commission with a mandate to negotiate with Moscow on the creation of a special legal base for the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, the construction of which should be completed in 2019. Two strings will increase the capacity of the corridor by 55 billion. Cube. in year.