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Reuters (2/21/25) reports: "The European Union will seek more gas from countries including the U.S. to replace Russian supplies, and expand renewable energy faster to cut its overall reliance on the fuel, the EU's energy commissioner has said. The EU has pledged to quit Russian fossil fuels by 2027 in response to Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. While Russian pipeline gas deliveries have plunged, the EU increased its imports of Russian liquefied natural gas last year. Under EU law, European gas contracts must end by 2049 to align with the bloc's climate change target for net zero emissions by 2050. The EU's electricity market rules mean that, despite Europe's rapid expansion of renewable energy, the price of gas continues to set the power price many European consumers pay."
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"If you make energy more expensive and less reliable, as the United Kingdom has done over the last couple of decades, you lower the standard of living of your population, shrink their opportunity set, and you simply export your industry."
– Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright
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