<story><title>Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-stop-nord-stream-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zx85wes</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been dead for a very long time. It&amp;#x27;s a carrot that Russia was never going to get. If Scholz is smart (which I doubt) he&amp;#x27;ll restart&amp;#x2F;keep open the nuclear power plants and cut taxes on gas&amp;#x2F;electricity for households to neutralise the price hikes.</text></item><item><author>_ph_</author><text>It is dead for all purposes unless the political climate changes radically. Whatever the Russian plans for a gas supplier to Germany were, they are limited to what the existing pipelines can deliver. I hope, we can reduce the dependency on Russian gas quickly, even if it means the additional effort of shipping LNG from the US or other sources.
Mid-term it should be highest priority to get rid of fossil fuels as quick as possible.</text></item><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>That is not remotely pulling the plug. This is &amp;quot;thinking about it&amp;quot; again. They already stopped accreditation a few weeks ago, otherwise it would already transport gas as the pipeline is already filled. They just say that they have officially stopped the process which they more or less already did. I think in a year it might come online again if the news cycle is on another topic.&lt;p&gt;Overall it will be much more expensive for Europe than for Russia. Who do you think will profit the most if gas prices hike?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ph_</author><text>Nuclear plants are not a real replacement to gas. First of all, a lot of gas gets used for heating - nuclear isn&amp;#x27;t useful there. Then it is used for providing flexible power, to ramp up and down as quickly as possible to follow the production of renewables. Only a small fraction of the gas goes into &amp;quot;base load&amp;quot; usage. So the government might look into the nuclear power plants to dampen the price level for electricity a bit, but that is about it.&lt;p&gt;For the last days, there was a lot of wind in Germany, causing the German wind energy production to sometimes even exceed French nuclear (up to 48GW of wind power). Germany most of all now has to correct the mistakes by the previous government and very quickly has to push for building up more wind and solar capacity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-stop-nord-stream-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zx85wes</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been dead for a very long time. It&amp;#x27;s a carrot that Russia was never going to get. If Scholz is smart (which I doubt) he&amp;#x27;ll restart&amp;#x2F;keep open the nuclear power plants and cut taxes on gas&amp;#x2F;electricity for households to neutralise the price hikes.</text></item><item><author>_ph_</author><text>It is dead for all purposes unless the political climate changes radically. Whatever the Russian plans for a gas supplier to Germany were, they are limited to what the existing pipelines can deliver. I hope, we can reduce the dependency on Russian gas quickly, even if it means the additional effort of shipping LNG from the US or other sources.
Mid-term it should be highest priority to get rid of fossil fuels as quick as possible.</text></item><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>That is not remotely pulling the plug. This is &amp;quot;thinking about it&amp;quot; again. They already stopped accreditation a few weeks ago, otherwise it would already transport gas as the pipeline is already filled. They just say that they have officially stopped the process which they more or less already did. I think in a year it might come online again if the news cycle is on another topic.&lt;p&gt;Overall it will be much more expensive for Europe than for Russia. Who do you think will profit the most if gas prices hike?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsh</author><text>Only 14% of the gas imported to Germany is used for electricity generation [1]. A few nuclear power plants would not make a big difference.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;de.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistik&amp;#x2F;daten&amp;#x2F;studie&amp;#x2F;37985&amp;#x2F;umfrage&amp;#x2F;verbrauch-von-erdgas-in-deutschland-nach-abnehmergruppen-2009&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;de.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistik&amp;#x2F;daten&amp;#x2F;studie&amp;#x2F;37985&amp;#x2F;umfrage...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>