The Lichterfelde gas-fired power plant in Berlin. Archival photoMOSCOW, 25 May. Germany's attempts to abandon Russian oil and gas are pushing it into dependence on the supply of Chinese solar and wind power generators, writes Wolfgang Bock, a columnist for the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung. The author criticized the German authorities for their commitment to plans to completely phase out nuclear power plants. Germany, both from nuclear and coal energy, practically pushed it into the arms of Russia,» Bock said. power shortage.
In Germany, they found a mistake in the anti-Russian sanctions of the WestThe expert was skeptical about plans to replace Russian gas with Qatari LNG and pointed to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and high cost. Bock also considered the idea of replacing gas with hydrogen untenable due to the high cost of electricity for its production. The columnist recalled that the production of solar panels and wind generators in Germany is in decline due to the dumping of Chinese manufacturers. «Germany is slipping from one addiction to another:» a green and carbon-free economy is impossible without massive imports from China,» the journalist stated. He also pointed to another problem for German industry — the rise in energy prices due to anti-Russian sanctions, which is why enterprises in Germany lose competition to Chinese manufacturers. 
Let's buy on Mars: Bulgarians outraged by the authorities' refusal of gas from RussiaGermany, like other Western countries, has faced severe economic problems — rising energy prices and a surge in inflation — due to the imposition of sanctions against Russia after the start of a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. The measures mainly affected the financial sector and the supply of high-tech products, but calls to reduce dependence on Russian energy resources began to sound louder in Europe, and many brands announced their withdrawal from Russia. The Kremlin called these restrictions an economic war, but noted the readiness for such a development of events. The Bank of Russia takes measures to stabilize the situation on the foreign exchange market; payments for gas supplies to unfriendly countries were transferred to rubles. The government also prepared a plan to counter restrictive measures, which includes about a hundred initiatives. The volume of its financing will amount to about a trillion rubles.
