> The EU is facing a winter gas shortage that could leave it scrambling to replace lost energy supplies equivalent to the power used by 12 million homes, according to new reports> But the EU's gas reserves have fallen to their lowest level for the time of year since records began in 2011, at just above 70%, after high prices made it more attractive for traders to sell gas in the summer rather than store it for later use in the winter.> The report warns that if imports of liquefied natural gas are limited or even “optimal” in the context of a cold winter, storage levels could fall as low as 11%, a baseline needed for strategic reserves that can't be easily tapped into.> If countries hope to restore their reserves to 30% by the end of winter — or else face increased exposure to future cold spells — volumes equivalent to 7% of the demand will either have to be curtailed or simply withheld from consumers, ENTSO-G warns.> Russian gas has been historically used to offset "swings in demand" over the winter, it said. "Now Europe depends on storage to get through winter."> To make matters worse, the IEEFA report argues, gas demand over winter has crept up in the past two years, while imports to the bloc have flatlined. That's left the EU leaning harder on its reserves over the winter period> The alternative would be to import fresh LNG, a seaborne fuel that the EU increasingly sources from the U.S. But at current prices, importing the lost volumes would cost Europeans an additional €3 billion, a 12% rise over what the same volume would have cost last year, on top of already sky-high prices, according to the report. > U.S. LNG production is also near full capacity, meaning those additional imports would further squeeze supply "There is not much demand to destroy in Europe," he added, pointing out that the war in Ukraine already destroyed 20% of the bloc's industrial demand. "And it didn't come back."
oh god i'm frooozing
>7483th time europoors will freeze to deathOh no
I do not live in EU, so zero problems.
NOOOO THINK OR ALL THE BROWNS WHO ARENT GENETICALLY ADAPTED TO THE COLD!!!
I've renewed my contract with fixed rates - about the highest ever but I feel like people with dynamic rates will be fucked hard come winter.
>>544022306Projections are a very mild winter so god is on our side like usual.Europe will do fine and we will get dozens of towns in Russia without any power completely freezing once again.Next year ziggers will memoryhole it and push the same nonsense again.
Brownoids never heard of Nuclear Power?
>>544022481>Economy and industry collapses even moreTAKE THAT PUTIN!
Quick let's give Russia everything it wants so we can get some cheap gas back, because consooming trumps everything
>>544022306With glorious Nordic genes I can't ever be cold. Let the worst winter in history come, and I'll watch the niggers freeze while being maximum comfy.
>>544022306>trust me THIS TIME EUROPE WILL FREEZElollmaoalso this >>544022382
>>544022306>Europe is le frooozewe've just had the warmest September since 1930, and October is shaping up the same way.Dress in layers, for fucks sake.
>>544022306Will this save Yandex datacenters?
>>544022547everything Russia wants is three oblasts in eastern ukraineor at least that was the case 4 years ago. now i think they'll take all of the coast and everything east of the dnigger.
>>544022306I brought AC!
>>544022488Your personal electrified heating will not save your industries from Germany's industrial demand's collapse & waves of layoffs next spring.Households having to set their heating to 18°C for the winter is not the problem - the core issue is the industrial costs' increase, which lead to orders' reduction from EU, which will cascade to all industrial suppliers of German, French & Italian industries (i.e. all of you little nations).Now that EU can only hope to pump up the storage levels via LNG shipments from the US, for which it has to price compete with Asian countries and those ships change their course according to the highest bid, that supply is not static or fully guaranteed.So what can be taken as guarantee, is the storages, and that alone is a quite dance on an edge of blade to live by.
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>>544022306I gotta take care of my pile of wine bottle beacause thanks to my subhuman upper neighbour my heater is running constantly now.
>>544022661>October is shaping up the same wayits already not like that only September was warm. Also its not dressing thats the problem its old homes needing heating to prevent mold.
>>544022814They can try, Russia is losing 1 million actual Russians every year since 1990 thanks to bad birth rates and since 22 war casualties on top of that.That ukrainians don't mass revolt already speaks for itself that death is preferable than being ruled by Russians.
>>544022306American gas will flow through Greece and i hope we will fleece you to payout debts.
>>544022488ZOG dislikes nuclear for Germany. Daily remainder that the US created the Green movement because they disliked the fast breeders Germany came up with and shut down the project. They are also the reason why we have a fucked up nuclear waste program that was letting radioactive material leak into ground water instead of just storing it normally and then refurbishing it via nuclear transmutation effectively solving the waste issue.
rip vatniks!
>>544022306When Russia is defeated and Putinists are lined up against a Kremlin wall, we will have control of all the gas we ever need forever. Short term pain, long term gain.
>>544022306I’m trembling already
We will yet again freeze to death like during the last 4 winters. If only we had demilitarized and let the Poweful POCCNR liberate Ukraine and disbanded the fascistic HATO millions would still live.Russia will now take the glowes off and send millions of iskander missiles at our cities if the fascistic zelenskyy regime dares to hit the power plants of Moscow and Pidorsburg
>>544022370hell yeah brother
>>544022306what a wonderful coincidence with syberian outbreak of pulmonary disease of unknown etiology kek
Europe was going to freeze every winter since February 2022. I doubt this year will finally be the year.
>>544022370based
>>544024675>Russhits make sarcastic videos about europeans freezing>meanwhile actual russians froze to death both at home and in ukraine ahaha
>>544023280Finland lost
>>544022481we should accelerate global worming so that we dont need the russian gazzz anymore
>>544026567It would be good for Europe while thirdie shitholes get worse.
>>544022306If we're at the limit of what we can export, that means we have very little slack for ourselves. Combined with the increasing cost of heating oil (diesel), unless we have a very mild winter, people here are going to be shitting bricks as heating costs skyrocket.
>>544023050The Greens were created by the Soviet Union to undermine nuclear development in the western world. You must be a zoomer to have made such a retarded statement that ignores everything before you gained consciousness. Terrible habit of zoomers that few of you are able to overcome.
>>544022885>munches thotfully on a hamster
