Title: Germany’s dependence on imported fossil fuels | Clean Energy Wire
Headings: Germany’s dependence on imported fossil fuels
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Content: Germany imported 5,419 petajoules (PJ) of natural gas in 2019, according to the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control ( BAFA ). This is an increase of 22 percent over the previous year. The country exported 2,821 PJ in 2019. Due to data privacy regulations, BAFA stopped publishing import volumes by country in 2016. However, the economy ministry says that Russia, Norway and the Netherlands continue to supply “large amounts.” In 2015, 35 percent of gas imports came from Russia, 34 percent from Norway and 29 percent from the Netherlands. In July 2018, an economy ministry spokesperson put Russia’s share in German natural gas imports at “about 40 percent.” Gas is imported to Germany exclusively by using pipeline s. The construction of Gazprom’s contentious Russian-German Baltic Sea pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is underway, but has faced intense opposition from Germany’s European partners and the United States. Sanctions have halted progress for months, but by mid-2020 construction was in the final stretch [Also read the factsheet Gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 links Germany to Russia, but splits Europe]
Germany currently has no infrastructure for the direct import of liquefied natural gas (LNG). However, the country is planning to set up an LNG infrastructure and can currently be supplied via terminals in neighbouring countries, where the liquid is regasified and pushed into the natural gas pipeline infrastructure.