March 2022. Bloomberg. European energy prices soared Wednesday as Germany moved to secure gas supplies in case of a potential disruption in flows from Russia. Bloomberg’s Anna Shiryaevskaya reports.
A funny comment: “Eat more sauerkraut. You’ll get more gas.”
2022. Deutsche Welle. The opening of Germany’s first LNG import terminal is a milestone in the country’s plans to find alternate sources of natural gas. The terminal, floating off the North Sea coast, was built in a record time of just under 10 months.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz greenlit the LNG projects on February 27 this year — just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine. The facility opened off of Wilhelmshaven is slated to feed an estimated 6% of Germany’s gas demand into the energy grid each year.