An
early-stage
paper
seen
by
Recharge
on
measures
to
control
fracking
assumes
that
Germany
has
up
to
2.3
trillion
cubic
metres
of
natural
gas.
“Given
Germany’s
annual
gas
consumption
of
some
86
billion
cubic
metres,
this
energy
resource
has
to
be
categorised
as
very
significant,”
it
says.
Germany’s
government
wants
gas
to
replace
some
of
the
nuclear
power
being
phased
out
by
2022.
The
country
currently
imports
great
parts
of
its
gas
needs,
mostly
from
Russia
and
Norway.
But
gas
is
increasingly
being
pushed
out
of
Germany’s
complex
electricity
market
by
increasingly
abundant
renewable…
