The war in Ukraine has massive consequences for Germany: Energy policy has long since become a matter of national security. Many people continue to call for a boycott of Russian gas and oil. But is a gas boycott economically justifiable?
Our studio guest Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert has developed various scenarios on how the German energy system could become independent of Russian gas imports as quickly as possible in the European context: www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.838841.de/diw_aktuell_83.pdf
Dr. Manuel Baumann is a research associate at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at KIT. There, he works in the research group for "Sustainable Energy Technologies". He, too, is in favor of a rapid switch to renewable energy sources.
