US and EU Strike Gas Deal to Reduce Reliance on Russian Energy

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The United States and the European Union have struck a deal to reduce Europeโ€™s dependence on Russian fossil fuels, including a commitment for the United States to provide an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to E.U. markets this year alone.

President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the new initiative at a joint press conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday.

โ€œWeโ€™re coming together to reduce Europeโ€™s dependence on Russian energy,โ€ said Biden, who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of using his countryโ€™s fossil fuel resources to โ€œcoerce and manipulateโ€ Russiaโ€™s neighbors and of using the profits from their sale to โ€œdrive his war machine.โ€

The context for the move is Russiaโ€™s invasion of Ukraine, which has sparked an unprecedented series of sanctions against Moscow and is driving the strategic shift away from E.U. reliance on Russian energy. Russia provides over 40 percent of the E.U.โ€™s gas and coal imports and around a quarter of its oil.

Russiaโ€™s actions in Ukraine, which Moscow calls a โ€œspecial military operationโ€ to disarm Ukraineโ€™s military and oust from power people it regards as dangerous nationalists, has already prompted the E.U. to pledge to cut Russian gas use by two-thirds this year and phase out Russian energy entirely by 2027.

At the press conference, Biden and von der Leyen announced the formation of a joint Task Force on Energy Security, which will work on ways to reduce Europeโ€™s dependence on Russian fossil fuels while reducing the E.U.โ€™s overall gas demand going forward by accelerating market deployment of clean energy technologies.

The task force will set out the parameters of this cooperation and will work on implementation, including ramping up supplies of LNG volumes to the E.U. as a matter of urgency to ensure enough gas for next winter and the following one.

Under the deal,ย the United States has pledged an additional 15 billionย cubic meters of LNG in 2022, with expected increases to those volumes in the future.

Byย Tom Ozimek

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