>According to a report by the Ministry of Economics, there has recently been significant progress in expanding the number of suppliers, especially with two energy sources.
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Germany appears to have reduced its energy dependency on Russia since the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine began.
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According to the “Second Progress Report on Energy Security”, there has been significant progress in diversification in recent weeks, especially in oil and coal. The document is available from the German Press Agency.
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»Enormous joint effort«
**Dependence on Russian oil has fallen from around 35 percent last year to 12 percent most recently, and the import share of Russian gas from 55 percent to around 35 percent. In the case of coal, this rate has fallen from 50 percent to around 8 percent since the beginning of the year.** The EU recently passed an import ban on Russian coal with a transitional period.
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**”All of these steps that we are taking require an enormous joint effort by all those involved, and they also mean costs that both the economy and consumers feel,” reported Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens). “But they are necessary if we no longer want to be blackmailed by Russia.”**
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An accelerated energy transition is the be-all and end-all for a cheap, independent and secure energy supply in the future.
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The ministry presented the first progress report at the end of March. In the case of Russian oil, contracts were therefore not extended by the mineral oil industry or they expired. “Ending dependence on Russian crude oil imports by late summer is realistic,” says the report.
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This is probably one of the reasons why the federal government is now supporting European plans for an EU-wide import ban on Russian oil. But that would not be easy, especially in East Germany.
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Biggest dependency on gas
This applies above all to the refinery in Schwedt, which according to the report continues to only source Russian crude oil: “Since it is majority owned by the Russian state-owned company Rosneft , a voluntary termination of the supply relationship with Russia is not to be expected.” From a technical point of view, an alternative would be Supply via the ports of Rostock and Gdansk possible.
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According to the report, it will take the longest to end Germany’s dependence on Russian gas. The dependency had fallen to around 35 percent by mid-April. **In return, natural gas procurement from Norway and the Netherlands has increased and the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has increased “significantly”.**
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Together with efforts by companies and private households to reduce the use of gas through energy efficiency, energy saving and electrification, the share of Russian gas supplies in consumption can be reduced to around 30 percent by the end of 2022, they say.
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According to the report, several floating terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) are to be put into operation on the German coast in 2022 and 2023. Further LNG terminals are being planned.
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with their help and other measures such as the accelerated expansion of renewable energies, the share of Russian gas should be reduced to ten percent by the summer of 2024.
Share of Russian fossil fuel, according to the report:
|Fuel|Before|Now|Goal|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Oil|35%|12%|0% by “late summer” ’22|
|Gas|55%|35%|10% by summer ’24|
|Coal|50%|8%|0% before August ’22|
To give a rough figure of how these reductions in coal, oil and gas add up in monetary value: Germany pays about 43% of what it would have paid without these reductions, if taking the 2019 numbers from [here](https://beyond-coal.eu/russian-fossil-fuel-tracker/). I don’t have more recent numbers on hand, but I guess the relative size of oil, gas and coal imports has not changed extremely.
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>According to a report by the Ministry of Economics, there has recently been significant progress in expanding the number of suppliers, especially with two energy sources.
>
Germany appears to have reduced its energy dependency on Russia since the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine began.
>
According to the “Second Progress Report on Energy Security”, there has been significant progress in diversification in recent weeks, especially in oil and coal. The document is available from the German Press Agency.
>
»Enormous joint effort«
**Dependence on Russian oil has fallen from around 35 percent last year to 12 percent most recently, and the import share of Russian gas from 55 percent to around 35 percent. In the case of coal, this rate has fallen from 50 percent to around 8 percent since the beginning of the year.** The EU recently passed an import ban on Russian coal with a transitional period.
>
**”All of these steps that we are taking require an enormous joint effort by all those involved, and they also mean costs that both the economy and consumers feel,” reported Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens). “But they are necessary if we no longer want to be blackmailed by Russia.”**
>
An accelerated energy transition is the be-all and end-all for a cheap, independent and secure energy supply in the future.
>
The ministry presented the first progress report at the end of March. In the case of Russian oil, contracts were therefore not extended by the mineral oil industry or they expired. “Ending dependence on Russian crude oil imports by late summer is realistic,” says the report.
>
This is probably one of the reasons why the federal government is now supporting European plans for an EU-wide import ban on Russian oil. But that would not be easy, especially in East Germany.
>
Biggest dependency on gas
This applies above all to the refinery in Schwedt, which according to the report continues to only source Russian crude oil: “Since it is majority owned by the Russian state-owned company Rosneft , a voluntary termination of the supply relationship with Russia is not to be expected.” From a technical point of view, an alternative would be Supply via the ports of Rostock and Gdansk possible.
>
According to the report, it will take the longest to end Germany’s dependence on Russian gas. The dependency had fallen to around 35 percent by mid-April. **In return, natural gas procurement from Norway and the Netherlands has increased and the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has increased “significantly”.**
>
Together with efforts by companies and private households to reduce the use of gas through energy efficiency, energy saving and electrification, the share of Russian gas supplies in consumption can be reduced to around 30 percent by the end of 2022, they say.
>
According to the report, several floating terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) are to be put into operation on the German coast in 2022 and 2023. Further LNG terminals are being planned.
>
with their help and other measures such as the accelerated expansion of renewable energies, the share of Russian gas should be reduced to ten percent by the summer of 2024.
Share of Russian fossil fuel, according to the report:
|Fuel|Before|Now|Goal|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Oil|35%|12%|0% by “late summer” ’22|
|Gas|55%|35%|10% by summer ’24|
|Coal|50%|8%|0% before August ’22|
To give a rough figure of how these reductions in coal, oil and gas add up in monetary value: Germany pays about 43% of what it would have paid without these reductions, if taking the 2019 numbers from [here](https://beyond-coal.eu/russian-fossil-fuel-tracker/). I don’t have more recent numbers on hand, but I guess the relative size of oil, gas and coal imports has not changed extremely.