> Many European leaders are wary of leaning too heavily on America lest their energy needs be used against them in trade and security negotiations with President Donald Trump.
Well yeah because the evidence suggests they will be, "Why did you sting me?" "It is simply in my nature said the scorpion".
Rock and a hard place, We need to expand renewable's fast enough to reduce our demand for fossil fuels but we still have that demand while it is on-going (and we'll still have some demand even when we've built out the renewable's unless we also build out a vast network of grid level storage or go nuclear).
This isn't a "we'll just weather this winter and carry on as before" this is a "The whole of Europe needs to figure out what they are going to do to secure the next 30 years of energy usage and then just do it".
We are so far past the point of pretending things are going back to the post-ww2/post-cold war status quo's.
> Rock and a hard place, We need to expand renewable's fast enough to reduce our demand for fossil fuels but we still have that demand while it is on-going (and we'll still have some demand even when we've built out the renewable's unless we also build out a vast network of grid level storage or go nuclear).
Federal government of Germany has been the majority shareholder in Uniper since December 2022 with a stake of 99.12%.
In the article "“All my customers in Europe, they have a transition strategy and they're working on investing in renewables. But they're also securing long-term contracts for gas,” Equinor CEO Anders Opedal told POLITICO last week, shortly after signing a 15-year gas supply contract with the German utility Uniper."
German government knows, that despite expansion of solar and wind (they have allocated 100 billion Euro in KTF), Germany will import fossil fuels for a very long time, if they don't want to destroy the German industry (follow UK, Italy). Even legally binding German net-zero legislation don't change the laws of physics.
> Many European leaders are wary of leaning too heavily on America lest their energy needs be used against them in trade and security negotiations with President Donald Trump.
Well yeah because the evidence suggests they will be, "Why did you sting me?" "It is simply in my nature said the scorpion".
Rock and a hard place, We need to expand renewable's fast enough to reduce our demand for fossil fuels but we still have that demand while it is on-going (and we'll still have some demand even when we've built out the renewable's unless we also build out a vast network of grid level storage or go nuclear).
This isn't a "we'll just weather this winter and carry on as before" this is a "The whole of Europe needs to figure out what they are going to do to secure the next 30 years of energy usage and then just do it".
We are so far past the point of pretending things are going back to the post-ww2/post-cold war status quo's.
> Rock and a hard place, We need to expand renewable's fast enough to reduce our demand for fossil fuels but we still have that demand while it is on-going (and we'll still have some demand even when we've built out the renewable's unless we also build out a vast network of grid level storage or go nuclear).
Federal government of Germany has been the majority shareholder in Uniper since December 2022 with a stake of 99.12%.
In the article "“All my customers in Europe, they have a transition strategy and they're working on investing in renewables. But they're also securing long-term contracts for gas,” Equinor CEO Anders Opedal told POLITICO last week, shortly after signing a 15-year gas supply contract with the German utility Uniper."
German government knows, that despite expansion of solar and wind (they have allocated 100 billion Euro in KTF), Germany will import fossil fuels for a very long time, if they don't want to destroy the German industry (follow UK, Italy). Even legally binding German net-zero legislation don't change the laws of physics.
https://www.uniper.energy/investors/share/shareholder-struct...
https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/DE/Themen/Oeffent...