Posted on 12/17/2022 6:50:24 PM PST by House Atreides
Germany’s gas reserves are emptying at record speed: 1% per day as the current wind/solar energy lull means more gas gets burned for electricity, heating.
Pleiteticker.de here reports how Germany’s natural gas reserves “are emptying at record speed” because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side over the past few weeks. This means gas turbines have had to jump in to pick up the slack in electricity production – not one the German government had hoped as it wrestles with the heightening energy crisis.
“Germany is converting gas into electricity in record quantities,” pleiteticker.de reports. “Thanks to high pressure system ‘Erika’, the current December is colder than it has been for years. […] In recent days, gas storage facilities have therefore been emptying much faster than before. From December 12 onwards, more than one percent was withdrawn from gas storage facilities in Germany every day.”
“Last week, almost one third of all electricity was generated from natural gas. These are record figures,” writes pleiteticker.de.
If the cold persists through the winter, gas reserves threaten to become extremely tight before spring arrives.
But instead of blaming the energy woes on failed government policies, federal network agency head Klaus Müller criticizes the situation on the consumers, and worries “the gas storage may not last the whole winter.”
“A national gas shortage in winter can be avoided if, firstly, the savings target of at least 20 percent continues to be achieved,” the Federal Network Agency says. Here the government’s solution clearly is that citizens should accept freezing even more when it’s bitterly cold out.
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US electricity prices haven’t much to do with Russia or Euro energy prices. These are the result of US domestic policy, and often just state policy. There is a reason CA electricity is 2X that of Texas. And gas service prices likewise
And gas, LNG or piped, is just a fraction of the Euro energy picture. Total cost and total supply picture isn’t catastrophic.
In Bilbao for instance, where we have a very Euro-standard mix of sources, including LNG, electric rates now are about what we were paying in San Francisco. Granted, on this matter Spain is a relatively rational country.
Actually just checked SF CA electric rates. We in Spain are paying only 60% of their current rates! That disaster is entirely on the state of California.
Just as Americans do. Look at who we have in the WH. With a 42% approval rating.
Germany has plenty of coal. They shut down most of their coal fired plants.
Welcome to your “new world”, where everything is in short supply. As western governments lower their citizens’s expectations as to the availability of products and services, people will soon parrot phrases such as “Well bread has always been in short supply”, or “We have always had a shortage of heating oil, and our thermostat has been at 58 since I was a child. We are have to do our part, didn’t you learn that in grade school?”.
For a foreshadowing of where western nations are headed, including the U.S., go read old articles from the late 1980’s and early 1990s, and then on into current times regarding the shortages in Venezuela and the “weight loss” program which citizens of that country suddenly found themselves enrolled in involuntarily.
This is not going to end well for western nations, especially the U.S. For as the other countries start to fall, our government will push us further into debt as they start to try to convince taxpayers to be benevolent and send billions of dollars overseas. At some point, politicians are just going to abandon the country, and run to the bunker located on one of the islands in the middle of nowhere which they were told they have an interest in for “times such as this”.
As you can tell from the amount of money we are sending Ukraine, there is no limit as to how much we can print. At some point, people will have to recognize that fact. However, I suspect it will be too late at that point to save our country.
It is not going to be pretty.
Yet another (stupid) bunch of reasons for Russia to have invaded Ukraine. To preserve their Euro market. That they then have lost for generations.
Our current leaders are dramatically worse than foolish.
It’s literally Russian LNG marked up from middlemen.
Russia currently losing $40-50 billion per week from lost oil & gas sales to Europe ... has been ever since Sept. 1st, when Russia unilaterally shut off the gas flows to Europe
that’s about $500-600 billion in lost revenues in the last 4 months ... that’s a lot to bear, even for Russia
and every week that this unnecessary war drags on is another week that Europe gets used to non-Russian suppliers ... pretty soon there won’t be any reason to back to Russia as a supplier (except for occasional top-ups, maybe)
but you Russian shills already know this ... that’s why you’re always desperately screaming for the sanctions to end, correct?
but you Russian shills already know this ... that’s why you’re always desperately screaming for the sanctions to end, correct?
Find a post of mine where I'm "desperately screaming for the sanctions to end", Chummy dipstick.
I suppose I can't really expect much from Chrystia's shrieking porch ape... 
I saw this coming during the spring so I hustled and installed a partial solar electric system and two woodstoves (I get the wood for free). Back then I knew for sure that the corrupt, leftist EU filthbags were going to choke the life out of its citizenry in the name of their self-enriching fraud called Climate Change. I was correct. Many, many folks here just cannot afford to pay their heating and utility bills now. I can't imagine how bad it's going to get in colder EU countries.
Unless the leftist/globalist/WEF-loving EU filth are made to cower in their homes, fearing for their lives, it's only going to get worse. A lot worse.
Dropping usage in winter by 20%? Tell me how the average consumer figures that amount?
They don’t/can’t. The only way to achieve that target is by closing businesses and production, which then puts people out of jobs, which then means ...how or who pays the bills?
Right now my heating is set at 65 during the day and 60 at night. Right now it is snowing outside, temperature is a balmy 27F with real feel at 15F. Thermal drapes are hanging closed too. At my feet is a small baseboard heater running. A single light burns over my table and my coffee has been brewed and moved to the thermal carafe to keep warm. This is not a new normal for me, it is my standard winter routine. Cut 20% usage? Where, how?
There’s absolutely no way to save this thing. Weimar Republic.
Schwab approves, the EU political puppet heads who were installed nod their heads like bobble head dolls. Again we are looking in the mirror at ourselves soon
True! We should now understand the weakness of diversity. We have large segments of the population that think and vote as a block and all captives to mother’s milk - free everything - monthly subsistence checks, health insurance, cell phones, etc.
and they know true Republicanism calls for reducing those benefits to just a safety umbrella.
Oh no, Germany’s enemies are de energizing, de industrializing her and stripping away her military stockpile. Without ever declaring war on her
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