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[–] Chup@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Well the title is false but quoted from an SMS on X from an official in the energy ministry, so there is not Reuters to blame.

Germany already has LNG over-capacities and the existing terminals only run on low performance. Residents complained why those terminals even exist and why build more. Yet, more terminals are being built, to be able to cover the natural gas amount even during a rare extremely cold over a long period of time winter – just in case to be on the safe side.

Only because there are more imports from Norway from 2024 on, that doesn't make Germany dependent on Norway. But that is apparently what that one guy wrote on X, and Reuters is just quoting. Nevertheless pipeline gas is the preferred product over LNG due to the lower price and the smaller carbon footprint.

Regarding the other topic you mentioned and the natural gas dependency, it's even going the other way. Germany is going to build a lot more gas power plants (25GW) over the next years. Once again to be on the safe side for the coal phase-out and with the concept to use the gas plants with hydrogen later on. So natural gas consumption will increase over the next maybe 5 or 10 years, when coal is finally shut off. This is the same direction other countries are currently going or already went in the past. But then natural gas is hopefully reduced again with enough renewable peak to generate hydrogen and store it for for bad days and nights.