12 minutes agoGermans urged to prepare for lack of gas
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(4 years ago)Fearing that Russia could cut off natural gas supplies, the head of the German energy regulatory agency urged residents Saturday to save energy and prepare for winter when use increases. Federal Network Agency President Klaus Mueller called on the owners of homes and apartments to check and [...]
Federal Network Agency President Klaus Mueller urged the owners of houses and apartments to control and regulate their furnaces and gas radiators to maximize their efficiency.
“The maintenance can reduce gas consumption from 10% to 15%,” he told German media.
Mueller said residents and property owners should use 12 weeks before the cold weather begins to prepare.
He said families should start talking now “if each room should be placed at its usual temperature in winter HINA or some rooms could be slightly colder”.
The appeal came after Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia earlier this month.
Russian state energy company Gazprom blamed a technical problem for reducing natural gas flowing through North Stream 1, a pipeline that runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.
The company said the equipment being renovated to Canada was blocked because of Western sanctions on Russia's war in Ukraine.
German leaders have rejected this explanation and have called reductions a political move in response to European Union sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine.
Deputy cascalari Robert Habeck, who is also minister of Germany's economy and climate and responsible for energy, has warned that a <x0locking” gas pipeline is possible starting on July 11th, when regular maintenance work will begin. In previous wines, work has brought the closure of North Stream 1 for about 10 days, he said.
The question is whether the future regular maintenance of the North Stream gas pipeline 1 will be turned into “a longer-term political maintenance”, said Energy regulator Mueller.
If the flow of gas from Russia “will drop over a longer period of time, we will have to talk more seriously about savings”, he said.
According to Mueller, in the event of a gas supply break, family economies would be protected specifically, just like hospitals or homes of elders.
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He said his agency “does not see a scenario in which there is no more gas coming to Germany”.
Early this month, Economy Minister Habeck activated the second phase of Germany's three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies, warning that Europe's largest economy faced a “crisis” and winter storage targets were at risk. /rel
