I'm not gonna call it a random occurence, it's more like the cumulation of a number of complex issues that have an influence on each other. The combination of f

I'm not gonna call it a random occurence, it's more like the cumulation of a number of complex issues that have an influence on each other. The combination of financial, environmental and operational advantages of natural gas over the alternatives is pretty obvious so I'm not terribly surprised by their choice given that they wanted to move away from nuclear and coal. I think they should have had more alternatives given that Russia's invasion of Crimea happened in 2014, extending nuclear would likely have been the best bet but opening up for extending nuclear was probably a very difficult sell at the time. Fukushima and the subsequent decision of Germany regarding nuclear was less than 3 years old then.