Energy crisis in Europe

It seems that Ukraine is at an advantage militarily right now, but what about the energy crisis in Europe? How is Europe going to navigate that?

Russia has cut off gas from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which means that gas from Russia has now fallen by 89%.

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senghenydd · M

Electricity is the energy of the future this has just brought the end of gas forward a few years, Britain will be having Nuclear power stations with a life expectancy of 25 to 35 years, by that time renewable energy sources will be established, the writing is on the wall for Gas Russia should sell it whilst there is still a market .

SW-User

@senghenydd I agree that nuclear is a good (albeit controversial) alternative.

Because it is controversial, a lot of countries are reluctant to do it. The E.U hasn't pledged that it will become less dependent on Russian gas by going nuclear so there doesn't appear to be any alternatives in place. In April, Germany said they were shutting down their last remaining nuclear power plants, and that was two months *after* Russia's invasion and a depletion in gas from Russia. They've insisted on putting sanctions in place, knowing full well what the costs are...why they aren't at least trying to come up with viable alternatives is beyond me.

They could do fracking, but they went and banned that too 😂

senghenydd · M

@SW-User News sources from countries outside Western Europe has suggested Western Europe has bought sufficient stocks of LNG for the coming Winter, supplies has been purchased from the Middle East , this is good news obviously this news must be kept low key. Long term arrangements need to be put in place for future energy supplies.