Exactly one year ago the world started holding its breath as rumours about Russia setting up an invasion on neighbouring state Ukraine started to look more and more like a certainty. Given the economic relationship between the ex-Soviet power and the rest of Europe, people within the energy industry, alongside economists, posed important questions regarding the continent’s energy needs and how this game of chess would impact our lives. As sanctions started to roll from the West, less and less natural gas has been purchased from Russia and efforts needed to be made in order for these countries that depended the most on the Russian resource, to plug the gap in their energy mix and find alternatives. Rethink decided to…