“If the gas is turned off this winter, we will burn everything we can to warm our people and generate electricity,” Euractiv quoted him as saying.

Bartuszka said that the transition to renewable energy will be difficult, but the future belongs to green technologies.

Earlier, Vice Chancellor of Germany, Minister of Economy and Climate Robert Habek admitted that the economic situation in the country against the backdrop of changes in the energy sector could become “worse than during the COVID-19 pandemic.”