Posted on 09/29/2022 8:45:38 AM PDT by elpadre
MOSCOW. Sept 29 (Interfax) - Electricity generated from wind power in Europe has dropped nearly 50% in the past two days, and the forecast for Thursday and Friday calls for practically calm weather, which requires utilizing other sources of energy.
Gazprom's request for pumping Russian gas through Ukraine today has not changed from the previous days and months.
UKRAINIAN TRANSIT
The Gas Transport System Operator of Ukraine, or GTSOU, has accepted a booking from Gazprom today to transport 42.4 million cubic meters of gas through the country against 42.4 mcm the previous gas day, data from GTSOU show.
Capacity was requested only through one of two entry points into Ukraine's Gas Transport System, the Sudzha metering station. A request was not accepted through the Sokhranivka metering station.
"Gazprom is supplying Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine at the volume confirmed by the Ukraine side via the Sudzha metering station at 42.5 mcm on September 29, with booking via the Sokhranivka metering station declined," Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told reporters.
GTSOU has declared a force majeure about accepting gas for transit through Sokhranivka, claiming that it cannot control the Novopskov compressor station. Ukraine has also said that if gas continued to be fed from Russia to the Sokhranivka station, amounts would be reduced accordingly at the exit points from Ukraine's gas transport system. The route through Sokhranivka had provided transit of more than 30 mcm of gas per day.
Gazprom believes there are no grounds for the force majeure or obstacles to continuing operations as before.
EUROPEAN MARKET
Europe's current temperatures are reaching all-time lows for the month of September, and could be the coldest for the past nine years at more than two degrees below last year's figure.
(Excerpt) Read more at interfax.com ...
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“..U.S. INVENTORIES
Steady gas exports in the United States are reducing the amount of resources for injection into storage, which is supporting prices on the domestic market.
The current inventory level is around 71%, which is substantially below the reserves at UGS facilities in Europe, with the EU having topped this level a month-and-a-half ago, and even more so in Russia, which has over 90%.
Current reserves in the country’s UGS facilities are only 5% above the lowest figure in the past five years, and the figure fell in the summer injection season, though it has risen slightly in the past week, data from the U.S. Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration show. The lag behind the norm for the past five years is 10%...”
But think how good this will be for Global Warming! No more power, no more use of power and the added bonus of excess population starving to death!!!
I hope Greta stays warm this winter.
LOL...”requires utilizing other sources of energy.”
If it wasn’t for “other sources of energy,” none of these green wet dreams would survive.
Oh No.... green energy isn’t working? Who could have predicted that? This must be misinformation /s
No electricity for the peasants!!
Europe is subject to prolonged episodes of calm, especially during cold weather. Wind depends on temperature differentials and when it is cold everywhere, there is no reason for the wind to blow.
Maybe if they got all the “Green Politicians” to stand in a line and blow they could turn a windmill?
Who could possibly have foreseen such a circumstance?
Probably not very many people under six years old.
Oh, imagine that…wind and solar aren’t reliable, are expensive, not green, and can’t meet demand even when the are up and running…Greta?
Oh no! Now the Russians are making the wind stop blowing over Europe!
“Gazprom is supplying Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine at the volume confirmed by the Ukraine side via the Sudzha metering station at 42.5 mcm on September 29, with booking via the Sokhranivka metering station declined,” Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told reporters.”
Russia ruined their multi-billion-dollar pipeline investment so they could send gas this way?
You screwed yourselves...dumb ......
Ukraine gets a big fee from countries that get gas via their lines. I & II bypass Ukraine and those fees.
Thanks. I haven’t seen anything talking about whether the pipeline damage had to be a government action or if individual actors could be capable of doing it.
And what about those sneaky Saudis?
‘Europe’ - the geographical continent that is - is too large an area for Europe-wide generalisations about wind speeds to mean very much. There are always regional differences.
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