Released May 12, 2025 | GALWAY, IRELAND
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Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland)--The European Union (EU) has announced a roadmap to completely end its reliance on Russian energy imports.
The REPowerEU Roadmap, presented by the European Commission (EC) "paves the way to ensure the EU's full energy independence from Russia" by ending the import of Russian gas and oil and phasing out Russian nuclear energy. The legislative proposals that will enable the shift, while maintaining stable energy supplies and prices across the Union, will be announced next month. The Commission said that as of 2025, LNG supplies to the region are foreseen to grow rapidly, while gas demand will decrease. The EU is expected to replace up to 100 billion cubic meters (Bcm) of natural gas by 2030, which means a decrease in demand by 40-50 Bcm by 2027. At the same time, LNG capacities are expected to increase by around 200 Bcm by 2028, which is five times more than current EU imports of Russian gas.
Measures taken by the Commission since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have reduced the volumes of imported Russian gas from 150 Bcm in 2021 to 52 Bcm in 2024 -- with the share of Russian gas imports dropping from 45% to 19%. All imports of Russian coal have been banned by sanctions; oil imports have shrunk from 27% at the beginning of 2022 to 3% today. "In nuclear, Member States that are still using Russian-designed VVER reactors have made progress in replacing Russian nuclear fuel with fuel from other producers," the Commission noted. The EU launched its first REPowerEU initiative just months after Russia's Ukraine invasion in early 2022 with the goal of making the region independent of all Russian energy imports before 2030. For additional information, see March 16, 2022, article--Europe Plans to Cut Russia From Energy Mix.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: "The war in Ukraine has brutally exposed the risks of blackmail, economic coercion and price shocks. With REPowerEU, we have diversified our energy supply and drastically reduced Europe's former dependency on Russian fossil fuels. It is now time for Europe to completely cut off its energy ties with an unreliable supplier. And energy that comes to our continent should not pay for a war of aggression against Ukraine. We owe this to our citizens, to our companies and to our brave Ukrainian friends."
The Commission said it will work with the Member States - some far more reliant on Russian energy imports than others - to ensure that the EU-wide phaseout of Russian energy imports will be "gradual and well-coordinated across the Union". They will be asked to prepare national plans by the end of this year setting out how they will contribute to phasing out imports of Russian gas, nuclear energy and oil. On gas, the Commission will improve the transparency, monitoring and traceability of Russian gas across the EU markets. New contracts with suppliers of Russian gas (pipeline and LNG) will be prevented, and existing spot contracts will be stopped by the end of 2025. With this in place, the EU expects to slash by a third its remaining supplies of gas from Russia. The Commission will further propose to stop all remaining imports of Russian gas by the end of 2027.
The Roadmap will also outline measures to address Russia's shadow fleet transporting oil as well as measures on Russian imports of enriched uranium. There will also be restrictions on new supply contracts co-signed by the Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) for uranium, enriched uranium and other nuclear materials deriving from Russia. A European Radioisotopes Valley Initiative is also envisaged to secure EU supply of medical radioisotopes through increased own production.
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The REPowerEU Roadmap, presented by the European Commission (EC) "paves the way to ensure the EU's full energy independence from Russia" by ending the import of Russian gas and oil and phasing out Russian nuclear energy. The legislative proposals that will enable the shift, while maintaining stable energy supplies and prices across the Union, will be announced next month. The Commission said that as of 2025, LNG supplies to the region are foreseen to grow rapidly, while gas demand will decrease. The EU is expected to replace up to 100 billion cubic meters (Bcm) of natural gas by 2030, which means a decrease in demand by 40-50 Bcm by 2027. At the same time, LNG capacities are expected to increase by around 200 Bcm by 2028, which is five times more than current EU imports of Russian gas.
Measures taken by the Commission since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have reduced the volumes of imported Russian gas from 150 Bcm in 2021 to 52 Bcm in 2024 -- with the share of Russian gas imports dropping from 45% to 19%. All imports of Russian coal have been banned by sanctions; oil imports have shrunk from 27% at the beginning of 2022 to 3% today. "In nuclear, Member States that are still using Russian-designed VVER reactors have made progress in replacing Russian nuclear fuel with fuel from other producers," the Commission noted. The EU launched its first REPowerEU initiative just months after Russia's Ukraine invasion in early 2022 with the goal of making the region independent of all Russian energy imports before 2030. For additional information, see March 16, 2022, article--Europe Plans to Cut Russia From Energy Mix.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: "The war in Ukraine has brutally exposed the risks of blackmail, economic coercion and price shocks. With REPowerEU, we have diversified our energy supply and drastically reduced Europe's former dependency on Russian fossil fuels. It is now time for Europe to completely cut off its energy ties with an unreliable supplier. And energy that comes to our continent should not pay for a war of aggression against Ukraine. We owe this to our citizens, to our companies and to our brave Ukrainian friends."
The Commission said it will work with the Member States - some far more reliant on Russian energy imports than others - to ensure that the EU-wide phaseout of Russian energy imports will be "gradual and well-coordinated across the Union". They will be asked to prepare national plans by the end of this year setting out how they will contribute to phasing out imports of Russian gas, nuclear energy and oil. On gas, the Commission will improve the transparency, monitoring and traceability of Russian gas across the EU markets. New contracts with suppliers of Russian gas (pipeline and LNG) will be prevented, and existing spot contracts will be stopped by the end of 2025. With this in place, the EU expects to slash by a third its remaining supplies of gas from Russia. The Commission will further propose to stop all remaining imports of Russian gas by the end of 2027.
The Roadmap will also outline measures to address Russia's shadow fleet transporting oil as well as measures on Russian imports of enriched uranium. There will also be restrictions on new supply contracts co-signed by the Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) for uranium, enriched uranium and other nuclear materials deriving from Russia. A European Radioisotopes Valley Initiative is also envisaged to secure EU supply of medical radioisotopes through increased own production.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 Trillion (USD).
