The European Commission (EC) on Tuesday released a long list of measures aimed at supporting its plan to end Russian energy imports that would significantly reduce the continent’s consumption of fossil fuels.

Energy efficiency efforts, fuel substitution, electrification and what the commission said would be a “massive scaling-up and speeding-up of renewable energy,” could cut up to 35 billion cubic meters (Bcm) of natural gas from the continent’s energy mix by 2030. That would come in addition to cuts projected under the EC’s “Fit for 55” initiative, a package of legislative proposals to aid in the continent’s push toward climate neutrality by 2050.

“We must now reduce as rapidly as possible our dependency on Russian fossil fuels,” EC President Ursula von der...