[skrause]

Germany isn't ramping up gas imports, it's replacing both nuclear and coal with renewables.

And even though gas power plants are the designated backup power plants for times when there is neither enough sun nor wind, this doesn't actually happen often enough that you need even more gas. So gas consumtion in Germany is actually projected to decline by at least 50% until 2040 [0].

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/energie-nachfrage-nach-gas...

[ktgkdodfm]

>And even though gas power plants are the designated backup power plants for times when there is neither enough sun nor wind,

Doesen't that mean that they need to build the capacity to cover their full use regardless(expensive), just that less fuel(cheap) is burned?

[dns_snek]

No, unless you're anticipating that winds will drop to 0 not just across entire Germany, but across the EU.

[philwelch]

Germany’s gas consumption is going down because someone blew up the natural gas pipelines from Russia to Germany, and Germany had no choice but to cut industrial production to make up the shortfall.