*There is lots of misinformation flying around about the connection between German nuclear phase-out and dependence on Russian gas so I want to provide just the facts:*
**Fact 1: Germany uses less natural gas for the production of electricity than before the first nuclear reactors were shut down**
German electricity production in 2010, the year before the nuclear phase-out started:
Coal 263 TWh
Gas 91 TWh
Oil 25 TWh
Nuclear 141 TWh
Renewables 105 TWh
Total: 625 TWh
In 2021:
Coal 165 TWh, -98 TWh compared to 2010
Gas 84 TWh, -7 TWh
Oil 22 TWh, -3 TWh
Nuclear 69 TWh, -72 TWh
Renewables 233 TWh, +128 TWh
Total: 573 TWh, -52 TWh
Saved by using less electricity: 50 TWh
Saved by [exporting less electricity](https://de-statista-com.translate.goog/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrage/stromimportsaldo-von-deutschland-seit-1990/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp): 2 TWh
[source](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?country=~DEU)
**Fact 2: Germany uses most of the natural gas for heating and only to a small part for the production of electricity**
13% for electricity
15% for heating businesses, offices
31% for heating homes
38% for heating industrial processes (e.g. metal fabrication, glass and ceramics, paper, chemical industry)
[source](https://www.bdew.de/media/documents/Erdgasabsatz-nach-Verbrauchergruppen.jpg)
**Fact 3: About half of the German homes have a natural gas furnace installed for heating**
48% of German homes are heated with gas
26% oil
14% use district heating (and about half of that heat is again produced with gas)
2.2% use heat pumps
2.6% use electrical storage heaters
7.5% other
[source](https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/sources-heating-homes-2019.png?itok=GRj-bwn1)
**Fact 4: About a third of the gas that Germany uses comes from Russia**
Russia: 34.4 %
Norway: 31.3 %
Netherlands: 20.2 %
Germany: 10 %
others: 4.1 %
[source](https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/gasversorgung-abhaengigkeiten-verringern-441270?view=renderNewsletterHtml)