Title: Germany’s dependence on imported fossil fuels | Clean Energy Wire
Headings: Germany’s dependence on imported fossil fuels
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Germany’s dependence on imported fossil fuels
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Content: According to several studies and politicians, Germany will have to import significant amounts of these green fuels, because space for generating electricity from renewables is limited in the country and power-to-x fuels could be produced significantly cheaper in other regions of the world. European Union’s import dependence
The EU produces large parts of its energy domestically, with about a third from renewables and nuclear each, and the rest mostly solid fuels like hard coal and lignite, and some natural gas and crude oil. Still, most energy needs (about 60%) are met with imports. Almost two-thirds of the EU’s energy imports in 2018 were petroleum products, followed by gas (24%) and solid fossil fuels (8%). Russia was the main extra-EU supplier in all three categories (30% petroleum, 40% gas and 42% solid fossil fuels), followed by Norway for crude oil and natural gas. Source: eurostat 2020. Energy import patterns vary widely across the EU member states. While more than 80 percent of imports in countries such as Malta, Greece and Sweden are petroleum products, over a third is gas in Hungary, Austria and Italy. The total import dependency rate in 2018 ranged from 0.7 percent (Estonia) to more than 90 percent in Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta.