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Necessity is law.
Germany is continuing its energy tour de force to do without Russian gas which, before the war, represented 50% of its national consumption.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz today inaugurated the floating terminal which received the LNG carrier Höegh Esperanza, loaded with 170,000 cubic meters of Nigerian liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Built in record time in the port of Wilhelmshaven, on the shores of the North Sea, this terminal allows Germany to obtain supplies of LNG directly without going through gas pipelines, in particular French ones.
From next week, from December 22, it will be injected into the national network.
But the effort required remains immense to wean ourselves off Russian gas.
Five other terminals (four chartered and operated by the state and one private project) should follow by the end of 2023, says our correspondent in Berlin, Pierre Avril.
Operational, these structures will only cover a third of recorded German consumption...
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