After a 13.3% yearly decrease in 2022, the EU demand for natural gas fell by another 7.4% in 2023

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1. May the demand for the other fossils fall even faster.

2. Great to see real world changes. Can’t wait to see if Europe’s 2030 goals are hit. It would be amazing to be mostly energy independent and cut off our energy drug dealers. 

3. Real question, the demand was falling until 2014, does anybody knows the reason why it came back up? The effect of the germans switching towards gas or are there other reasons?

4. But to whom is going Azerbaijan to sell the Russian gas to in 5-10 years?

5. Friends convince their friends to install r/heatpumps ! It’s stupid to heat a continent using gas from dicators and corrupt companies! 

6. Any charts with production drop in EU?

7. Important drop in Germany. Hopefully Romania increases their production while consumption keeps dropping so the EU gets closer to be energy independent.

8. The Greens really should have pushed the energy sovereignty talking point decades ago. It’s too logical of an argument to ignore.

9. Sweden here, I plugged my gas pipe in 2013 and threw out the whole stove because an [electric hot-air stove](https://www.vitvaruexperten.com/storage/ma/87ed2df15a61453d8fba119420e47185/598e376e1f994838b5f29ba53a50d22d/600-600-0-jpg.Jpeg/E5B3C92D1B1A28BB83EA00ED832244BF180E6EBF/BOSCH_SPIS_HCA622120V.jpeg) costs about $25/year in electricity cost, while a gas oven for a single household costs around $240 to fuel, in Stockholm. Simple math.

   Also: gas stove is absolute shit to try to bake with, most uneven temperature and worthless solution ever.

10. That’s very very good.

11. I hope EU can be mostly independant from fossil fuels in the near future.

12. Bulk of this is natural-gas dependent German industry moving out and before the Greens start cheering – look at the consumption spike in Turkiye starting with 2022. From global warming perspective it doesn’t matter that your bricks are now made in Bursa instead of Dusseldorf and from the global security standpoint – both kilns still run on Russian gas.

13. Get it down to zero please, so we can stop relying on fucked up dictatorships in the Middle East and Caucasus.

14. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/4-13032024-ap

    “In January 2024, compared with January 2023, industrial production decreased by 6.7% in the euro area and by 5.7% in the EU.”

    Europeans can be proud of getting rid of russian gas, but there is a nuance.

15. Beacuse we dont have winter anymore