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The European Commission's Repower You Plan and the Medium Term Strategy of Decarbonization
European Commission's Repower You plan was supposed to change European energy consumption so that we would be rid of our alliance on Russian natural gas by 2027. The bulk of demand reduction and the bulk of what offsets this lost Russian supply is electrification, insulation, switching to hydrogen. And then the third bucket, which becomes even more critical and absolutely necessary given how quickly Russian flows have fallen, is outright demand destruction and reduction of consumption.