The Austrian authorities intend to fight the country’s dependence on Russian gas companies. This was announced on Wednesday, February 2, by the Minister for Climate Protection, Ecology, Energy, Transport, Innovation and Technology of the Republic Leonore Gewessler.
“We are now seeing where our dependence on gas is taking us. Prices for energy and natural gas have increased. We are dependent on Russian gas concerns. The only way out of this in the future is renewable energy, wind energy, solar energy and hydropower,” she said.
Gewessler added that the European Commission’s decision earlier in the day to recognize nuclear and natural gas as green energy sources for the transition to a carbon-free economy, which was taken earlier in the day, will be appealed. New investments in these areas, she said, will lead to a dead end in the use of outdated nuclear technologies and natural gas.
In 2021, European countries are facing an energy crisis. The rise in gas prices began at the end of August and continued until the beginning of October. On October 6, on the London ICE exchange, the price of November TTF futures at a gas hub in the Netherlands exceeded $1.9 thousand per 1 thousand cubic meters. m, setting a new historical maximum, but then dropped.
On October 28, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl said that the Europeans created the energy crisis with their own hands. According to her, the European “Green Deal” is an overly ambitious plan for the transition to a new type of energy, but you can not give up something without replacing it with something.
Later, in December, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, said that there would be a stabilization of energy and electricity prices in the eurozone in 2022.
Source: IZ
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