Can Europe give up Russian energy and still go green?
When Russian tanks and soldiers moved into Ukraine, it opened eyes across Europe that energy independence and a transition to green sources aren’t just a matter of environmental concern. They’re a matter of national security.
Nowhere is evidence of that wake-up call more apparent than in Germany, whose capital city of Berlin is some 500 miles from the Poland-Ukraine border. Having already halted a long-awaited Russo-German natural gas pipeline in the run-up to the war, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz quickly declared that the country must wean off Russian energy supplies, while the European Commission announced plans to buy two-thirds less Russian natural gas by year’s end.
This energy wake-up call will take Germany and Europe
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