Can Europe replace Russian gas with renewable energy? | Inside Story 

Thanks Russia ... you're helping solve the climate crisis.

New German solar cell converts almost a third of sun's radiation into electricity, namely 32.5%. It is rumored that that technology will be on the market by the end of this year because of how cheap the mass production is in comparison to similar solar cells.

Somehow i am feeling Aljazeera is quite concerned that Europe is actually moving away from oil & gas. Hope its parent in Qatar is not that concerned :)

Ok ok Not only Europe, the whole world is becoming energy independency very soon not only from Russia but also from USA.

That was terrible!!! "Russian" oil is inflationary. However, doubling our PA cost streams for wind alone, isn't 😂

No one talks about the grid. Electricity is complex and you have to energy storage. Of course gas Company can be saved by this. Part the energy storage when it if wind don't blow is gas. 😅

The host journalist was asking good questions, the skeptical reporter didn’t say much, the conflict of interest Environmental company guy wasn’t worth listening to and the super bureaucrat “renewable electron” lady was a crackup. You need to get civil, mechanical and power engineers together to contribute to the discussion as well as a truly independent energy economist to be included in the discussion. Offshore floating wind will be the most expensive, most impractical energy ever produced by mankind. (If they ever get it off the ground). No amount of policy will ever overcome that. At least they still have natural gas infrastructure in place as well as coal. Europe will be energy partners with Russia before the ink is dry on any settlement agreement in the Ukraine.

130 Gw to 2030 !!!! Is that even possible ???? I answer myself and say not possibel. För 130 GW windmills it takes about 214 each year to complete. One EACH day (Counting downtime due to bad weather). 100 Windmills are 1 Gw

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I stopped at a Russian gasstation in Europe this week. it's been abandoned for months.

Every new house build should have solar panels instantly fitted as a normality, surely that's common sense.

Reality is that, without Russian cheap energy, cost of production is soaring in Europe to the point that some of European industries will have to close down and some will have to open production hubs in countries like china and India. That is the long-term reality facing Europe.

Apparently as of 2021 there are only 200million households in the EU compared to the 300million they hope to serve.

Everyone depend on renewable energy instead source of gas...

This video limited its discussion to geopolitical beauracracies and didn't touch anything actually related to implementation. IMO the EU could benefit if all its members met with the purpose of how best to implement a future of renewable energy instead of the piecemeal fashion things have been happening until now. I understand that Denmark has been particularly successful already building offshore wind farms and is already net positive generating more than the country's needs. Germany has been trying to build as much as it can but is falling short but more importantly like most of Europe supposedly has a decrepit grid with no real plan to resolve that problem any time soon. If Germany even had a halfway decent grid, it could even be importing some of that excess electricity from Denmark. This video suggests that areas off Scotland are being considered for future wind farms but I suspect that might be primarily the parochial interests of the people in this video's panel. Europe should work cooperatively to grade every possibility for renewable energy generation of all types, then decide where and when and what should be built in 3-5 year increments accounting for the usual 3 year payback and whatever regulatory or licensing delays that might be involved. Connecting all of Europe with a highly redundant and smart grid should be the highest priority in every country if all of Europe will be consumers of energy generated in only certain areas. And, options should not be limited to the borders of the EU. I've heard proposals which might be considered wild ideas producing energy in North Africa and then either transmitting the electricity to Europe or creating green hydrogen that can then be transported by container elsewhere in the world. To finance this, I would expect the European Central Bank to be at the center of most financing, but individual countries with means might be motivated to follow the example of the Danes and forge ahead on their own if they see an opportunity to fast track claiming territory to build green energy power plants.

Pfft! No! Not unless you consider coal, nuclear or non-russian gas renewable.

Can't wait for cheap energy.

Is it just me or is the sound on my headphones terrible as it only goes through the left ear?? 😆

wind and solar are not BASE LOAD POWER so hydro will do it as a part of the solution.

No gas and oil imagine that 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Even zeal without prudence is not good, and he who hastence his pace errs.

Let's rapidly expand and transition our entire global economy to renewably powered electricity to power everythjng everywhere 🌎.

The future is going to be regions. North America, Europe as another superpower. The Middle East and the OIC, and of course Asia will be another region that is a super power. Hope we get electric powered ships by then. Domestic rocket travel?

Oil and gas are much more expensive than renewables. Solar is the cheapest scalable form of power production already even without considering the carbon costs. Oil and gas cost more than they could ever be worth, as they shift the cost of consumption to the younger and poorer. You are spreading caustic (strategic?) misinformation.

Please no attack on renewables and civlians ok

Yes! but renewables AND NUCLEAR !!

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It is the usual Green nonsense. A competent Dutch engineer has calculated that if the Netherlands covered the whole of its land and sea area with wind and solar units it could not meet todays energy needs never mind those required if the use of gas and fossil fuels is stopped due to intermittency and loss of wind down wind of the first units in a wind array system quite apart from losses during conversion to the high voltage required for transmission and the instability of a total renewables grid. But then renewable energy has little to do with the environment and more to do with political control of the population as promoted by the WEF.

The guests are right. Energy security is the main motivator for increase in renewables in Europe. Once the cheap oil and gas starts flowing from other countries, that's it Europeans will forget about energy security.

Thinking that renewable matters at all is a mistake. Our energy goals should be security, affordability, and environmental protection without regard to being called RE or not. Sometimes, methods labeled as RE are the best option. Often, this is not the case. Unfortunately, many, including governments, have made the goal RE instead of energy security, affordability, and environmental protection. Its clear for a lot of reasons that dilute intermittents are unsuitable to do the heavy lifting if these are our goals.

Sure Europe can. But the economy will go half bust before it comes back up again, the pain that is part of a changing process..

Gas ovens will be obsolete.wind wave,solar nuclear energy.i also waste plants can make gas.need to fined a way of making coal burning cleaner for energy.

They just signed a gas deal with Azerbaijan, a client state of Russia. So, the answer is "NO", they can't. Unless they want to turn themselves back to the middle ages.

What about usa ?

If North Sea wind energy is so effective and efficient and financially competitive why are governments funds required, should not the markets fund and develop it. Let renewable develop organically with market funding not government funding and regulatory short cuts.

Can europe replace global uranium with renewables

They will talk like this for years before any work is done. 😂

Hypocrites' ....

😂what will happen to OPEC countries

EU is not China.

Good old Americans and Norwegians blew up the pipeline🎉🎉🎉

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HE SAID JIGAWATS 😂😂😂😂 JIGAWATTS!!! We are all going to die in a very 21st century fashion. Pulled off a cliff by clueless politicians to our deaths.

Our nabi (pbuh) already told to use renewable energy❤

Now only if body oder was an energy source than Europe would be rich in that department

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