[sebwi]

The chosen dependency on Russian gas has less to do with the Energiewende than with geopolitics. There has actually been a reduction in Russian gas supplies since the end of the Cold War. Germany is dependent on gas imports from Russia but less so than many other East European countries. Not to say that there aren't worrying signals, though. Russia has delivered far less gas to Germany this year, while depleting the gas stocked in their gas storage facilities in Germany.

[woodpanel]

No. Russia has steadily been increasing its gas supplies to Germany, it's just that Germany b/c of the Energiewende (a.k.a. "the world's d*st energy policy" [1]) has been increasing its gas demand even more. Germany is gobbling up the largest share of the world's exported gas market (~>10%) [2].

> "Russia has delivered far less gas to Germany this year"

Russia's share of Germany's gas imports just increased again to more than 55% this year [3] – and this is pre NordStream 2.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11... [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdgas/Tabellen_und_Grafiken#I... [3] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/151871/umfrag...*