Posted on 07/02/2022 8:33:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BERLIN (AP) — Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency for energy called on residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter, when use increases.
Federal Network Agency President Klaus Mueller urged house and apartment owners to have their gas boilers and radiators checked and adjusted to maximize their efficiency.
“Maintenance can reduce gas consumption by 10% to 15% ,” he told Funke Mediengruppe, a German newspaper and magazine publisher.
Mueller said residents and property owners need to use the 12 weeks before cold weather sets in to get ready. He said families should start talking now about “whether every room needs to be set at its usual temperature in the winter -- or whether some rooms can be a little colder.”
The appeal came after Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia earlier this month, as European Union countries scramble to refill storage facilities with the fuel used to generate electricity, power industry and heat homes in the winter.
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“Thanks for that conversion! Interesting that it’s hard to find what the EuroPeeings are paying for piped Russian natgas on their long-term contracts.”
You’re welcome and I did see a price once, and it was tiny - I think under $100/1000 cubic meters, which comes out to under $20/barrel crude equivalent...but I haven’t seen the price recently, either, so my memory could be wrong on this.
Trump warned Merkel. For a country that blitzed Europe in a month in 1940, Germany can’t even figure out how to keep the lights on.
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