The Russian pipe-laying ship “Akademik Tscherski” which is on deployment for the further construction of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline, is moored at the port of Mukran on the island of Ruegen, Germany, on September 8, 2020. Surging energy prices and fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security — particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. The crisis shows Europe’s vulnerability after years of limited progress in allowing affordable gas and electricity to flow across borders while diversifying suppliers and reaching climate goals. (Photo by Jens Buettner/dpa via AP Photo, File)





A wind turbine at sunset in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Monday, January 10, 2022. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





Steam rises from the cooling towers of the Grohnde nuclear power plant near Grohnde, Germany, Wednesday, December 29, 2021. Germany on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021 is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP Photo)





Wind turbines stand in front of the rising sun in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 11, 2022. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





This picture taken from a plane shows wind turbines through stratocumulus clouds over Germany on December 7, 2021. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP Photo)





The coal-fired Boxberg Power Station, operated by Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG (LEAG) company, is pictured in Boxberg, March 22, 2022. (Photo by Matthias Rietschel/Reuters)





Steam of a power plant in Mannheim rises through the fog covering the cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim as seen at sunset from the peak of the Konigstuhl Mountain in Heidelberg, Germany, on January 14, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Roland/AFP Photo)





Steam rises from the cooling tower of the nuclear power plant of Gundremmingen, Bavaria, Germany, Friday, December 31, 2021. (Photo by Stefan Puchner/dpa via AP Photo)





A rainbow is seen behind wind turbines near Breuna, western Germany on February 17, 2022. (Photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP Photo)





The blast furnaces of Tata Steel seen from the beach, in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands on January 23, 2022. RIVM is carrying out an investigation into the origin of the dust precipitation in the air in the IJmond region, the area where the Tata Steel factories are located. (Photo by Robin Utrecht/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





The moon sets behind the hills of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Wind turbines are silhouetted against the sky at sunset Friday, December 17, 2021, near Ellsworth, Kan. The 300-foot-tall turbines are among the 134 units comprising the Post Rock Wind Farm. (Photo by Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)





Tele communication buildings are seen on top of the Feldberg mountain while fog lies over the city of Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, December 23, 2021. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





The sun sets behind an operational pumpjack Monday, December 27, 2021 in Odessa, Texas. (Photo by Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP Photo)





A general view of the Drax Power Station, illuminated in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, in North Yorkshire, Britain on April 1, 2022. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)