New laws to accelerate the renewable energy transition will reduce the country's climate impact—and its dependence on Russian fossil fuels
. It’s hard to escape reminders of the country’s reliance on gas: In Berlin, the smokestacks of a natural gas-fired power plant punctuate the skyline less than two miles from the parliament building, the Bundestag; the capital even still lights some of its streets with 20,000 old-fashioned gas streetlamps. A network of pipelines 317,000 miles long crisscrosses the country, delivering gas to houses, factories, and power plants.
On April 6, demonstrators gathered in front of the German parliament building in Berlin to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They demanded an embargo on Russian fossil fuels—even though for now Germany remains heavily dependent on those imports, especially natural gas. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.the roots of the Energiewende
“Natural gas was seen as a bridge into the clean energy future,” Buck says. “That bridge has broken down. That’s reshaping the discussion.” Germany has already frozen the approval process for an $11 billion pipeline from Russia called, Nordstream 2, that was nearly completed when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Thus Germany’s only option to replace Russian natural gas over the next few years is to find new natural gas suppliers—and to push even harder to move to renewables.The Energiewende is farthest along in the electricity sector, but the war in Ukraine has also spotlighted the work still needed in other sectors—transportation, manufacturing, heating—to get Germany to its goal of net-zero emissions by 2045.
Meanwhile, after years of subsidizing renewable energy, wind and solar electricity are now cheaper than power generated with fossil fuels. “The technology is so cheap that globally, renewables are competitive,” Peter says. “Investors are moving in that direction, even those from oil- and coal-producing countries.”
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