The president of the national energy regulator has warned that Germany doesn’t have sufficient gas reserves
Germany’s natural gas reserves are not enough to see the country through next winter without purchasing additional Russian gas, the top official in charge of electricity and gas networks has told the media.
In an interview with Germany’s Bild am Sonntag, published on Sunday, Klaus Muller warned that while “gas reservoirs are nearly 65% full,” and “it’s better than in the previous weeks” it is still not sufficient to “go through the winter without Russian gas.”
Muller, who is president of Germany’s Federal Network Agency, added that much now depends on whether maintenance work on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline concludes as expected on Thursday.
When asked how long it would take before energy prices for consumers in Germany are further raised, in case of a complete stoppage of Russian gas deliveries, Muller said no decision has yet been made. However, he offered reassurances, noting that “there hasn’t been any significant price surge this week, even though the Nord Stream 1 was shut off.” The official suggested this may be a sign that “markets have already internalized the loss of Russian gas supplies and we’ve reached a gas-price-plateau.”
The energy regulator president insisted that Germans “shouldn’t succumb to panic,” assuring that “private households have the least reason of all to worry,” and will be provided with gas far longer than industry.
Moreover, according to the official, “there’s no scenario in which we remain completely without gas.” Muller noted that even if Russia were to cut supplies entirely, other countries like Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium would still be selling the fossil fuels to Germany. In future, the country’s own liquefied natural gas terminal will also make a difference, the network agency’s president added.
Muller said if gas rationing occurs, the agency will weigh up the potential damage to the economy and supply chains from shutting off supplies to any particular business or industrial plant.
The official went on to claim that even if there is a shortage, it will likely affect only the parts of Germany which are at the end of the gas network.
Muller also dismissed suggestions that Berlin should ban any gas exports to neighboring European countries, stressing the importance of solidarity.
“Just like we are now benefiting from the liquefied natural gas ports in Belgium and the Netherlands,” Germany would lend its neighbors a helping hand should they face a severe gas shortage, the official pledged.
Muller predicted that Germany has two difficult winters ahead, with a risk of gas shortages, but by summer 2024 the country will be independent from Russian gas.
“What is also true, however, is that the prices will never again be as low as they once were,” Muller acknowledged.
Since the start of Russia’s offensive against Ukraine, gas prices in Europe have soared, reaching an all-time-high of over $3,600 per 1,000 cubic meters in early March.
While Ukraine and some other Eastern-European nations, including Poland, have been calling on the EU to ban imports of Russian gas, Brussels has so far stopped short of implementing the measure due to a lack of consensus among member states.
German government officials and industry representatives have repeatedly warned that a stoppage of Russian gas supplies would deal a huge blow to the economy.
In late June, Economy Minister Robert Habeck activated the second phase of Germany’s three-stage emergency gas plan. It came as Russia slashed supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, blaming the lack of a turbine, stuck in Canada due to sanctions.
On Monday, Russia began regular maintenance work on the pipeline, meaning no gas was flowing to Germany at all.
Also this week, Berlin asked Ottawa to exempt the piece of equipment cited by Moscow as the reason for falling supplies.
Canada has accepted Berlin’s request, and will ship the turbine to Germany, from where it will make its way to Russia, allowing Ottawa to avoid violating its own sanctions by using an indirect delivery route.
Meanwhile on Friday, Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom officially asked German industrial giant Siemens to provide the paperwork needed for the return of the equipment to Russia.
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Well, they did it to themselves.
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It seems to me that backing Germans into an untenable corner has historically
been a very bad idea. If they aren’t at your knees, they will be at your throats.
Desperate people will do anything.
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AP, you don’t have to believe that German or American elections are entirely fraud-free to understand that our populations are largely at fault. Aside from those of you lucky enough to live in rural Red America, we’re surrounded by these fucking lunatics. People who vacation in Costa Rica and think they’re saving the planet by owning an electric lawnmower. People who worry about trans rights and pronouns. People with Ukrainian flags. People with Happy Ramadan signs. Mask wearers. San Diego isn’t re-imposing masking in schools against the popular will but because of it. Germans could have picked AfD, but they chose the Social Democrats and the Greens. They did. That’s reality. AfD is a tiny, minor, also-ran party in Germany. Don’t delude yourself.
Unfortunately, I think you are right. It is the People that are corrupt. Concerted and persistent exploitation of ignorance will do that. It is probably as unavoidable as the tides. Faith is the bulwark.
I agree with everything you wrote except for absolving the people. There’s a simple answer to your first four points (govt doesn’t represent the will of the people, fake elections, green energy nonsense & official propaganda): the people are supposed to rise up and throw off their oppressors.
The Covid propaganda didn’t work on me and I doubt it worked on you. As soon as I could I moved out of NY and into the boonies in Florida. I imagine the propaganda didn’t work on most people who read TBP. Why were we able to see through the bullshit and others weren’t? At what point are they responsible for using their brains?
As for white guilt, I don’t feel any at all. I treat blacks the same as I would any mentally retarded person. The media can run all the ads with mixed race families and idiotic, effeminate white men it wants to and it won’t affect me at all.
And as for white supremacy, its time to embrace the label. When the shit hits the fan, its gonna get very tribal.
So, sure, lots of weak minded people have been conned or fooled or misled or whatever you want to call it. I don’t find that to be an acceptable excuse. If people aren’t willing to think for themselves then of what value are they? Consider this time period a culling of the dumb, useless and cowardly. What’s left will be what we have to work with to fight and to create something better.
>>>Have you noticed that US Whites resort to “Virtue-signalling” to psychologically support themselves in the face of constant demonization?
This is perhaps the best argument in favor of avoiding personal exposure to mass media, and being selective in your personal relationships.
If it wasn’t for my repeated contact with my Boston-area sister, I wouldn’t be aware of any self-loathing whites at all… though I do believe it when I hear that they are out there in large numbers.
Selective ignorance is bliss.
“Can’t you see how the German pysche has been systematically perverted and manipulated since 1945?”
Can’t you see how the German pysche has been systematically perverted and manipulated since the Versailles Treaty at the end of WW1?
There … FIFY …
We’re going to have enough gas for homes. But we’re going to destroy your ability to pay for it by closing your place of work. Sounds like a solid plan, doesn’t it?
People will be fully dressed at home (not being half dressed) and turn the heat down some. Even heat pumps can run up your power bills.
Yes, there will “be plenty of gas for households” @ $3600/ 1000 cubic meters. (Can that even be correct?). But no one will be able to pay for it. And if that doesn’t suppress demand I’m sure a simple doubling of the price will. It will be interesting this winter to see just how far Europeans will virtue signal and sacrifice to Mother Gaia. Perhaps until they turn to Eurosicles? Sad to watch, but great to see when their upside down world of lies meets reality. Change is coming.
This year’s German winter will be a memorial one.
It would be a good thing we are experiencing glow bull warming with record high temperatures. Surely, winter will be just as warm due to all of the CO2.
Thats just not how ‘climate change; works my friend.
When its the sun its either to sunny or not enough sun. When talking about temps its to hot or to cold, to windy or not enough wind, to rainy or not enough rain. ‘Climate change’ is fluid… it can be anything at the moment. But you already knew this… as does everyone thats not a zombie…
And once winter is over, they will still have energy problems. Western leaders only know how to blame others, so Europe is screwed.
German prayer:
Dear most high priestess Gaia, I know that in the past we have been praying and making human sacrifice to you for heating up the planet so selfishly but now we have another favor to ask you. Can you put that global cooling thing on hold just for a little while. We sure could use a warmer winter this winter.
Amen and all praises and glory to you our high priestess Gaia
Their prayer will be the sound of their own teeth clanking against each other.
The solution has got to be MOAR Russian sanctions. Teach those greedy bastards that they cannot push us around. While we are at it, let’s shut down all the nuclear power plants and really teach them a lesson.
Germany is shutting their’s down so all of Europe will eventually go back to 1800’s lifestyle.
JH Kunstler’s “A World Made By Hand”.
Auntie thought that Jim called the first nation to embrace the suck and return to a manual existence is Japan.
I think I read somewhere that Germany prohibits wood burning, or severely limits it. So they can’t even harvest wood and heat their homes. Then again, it wouldn’t matter for the urban and most suburban areas. Oh well, their problem, not ours. I have a wood lot to heat my home for decades.
But wait, there’s more (bad news)….
Germany’s Energy Crisis About To Get Even Worse As Rhine Water Levels Plummet
the declining water level of the Rhine river, which has historically been a key infrastructure transit artery across Germany, continues to fall and as it does, the flow of commodities to inland Europe is starting to buckle threatening to make an already historic crisis even worse…
Low water levels on the Rhine River mean that barges hauling middle distillate-type oil products – typically gasoil/diesel – past Kaub in Germany, are limited to loading about 30% of capacity, according to maritime brokerage services firm Riverlake…
Because of the tight coal market and low Rhine levels making it hard to deliver the fuel, only 65% of Germany’s coal capacity will be available in coming months, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights analyst Sabrina Kernbichler. This is bad news for a country whose biggest energy utilities are starting to drain natgas reserves as a result of the halt in Nord Stream 1 shipments, jeopardising millions of Germans with freezing should the country fail to restock fully ahead of the winter.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germanys-crisis-about-get-even-worse-rhine-water-levels-plummet
Not to worry. Glowbull Warming is scheduled to melt all of the polar ice and that will provide oceanfront property to those who are now inland.
Don’t care. I’m preparing for the breakup of the USA and assorted shit that is going to happen because of it.
My parents live in a house built in the 1960s in Germany, poorly insulated, with an old but functioning oil heating system.
The plan by the German government was that all oil and gas heating systems have to be replaced by “sustainable” ones by 2024, which would be a substantial cost (individually as a home owner and collectively as a country).
I told them two years ago to just wait, that I did not believe that this plan would ever be implemented. Meanwhile, all of their neighbors went ahead and took advantage of the government subsidies and replaced their older heating systems with those “supposedly green” systems.
My bet is that that oil burner will still be going strong into the 2030s, if the house still stands at that time.
Meanwhile, they bought a few electric heaters for the house last week. Of course, for that to work, there has to be electricity… I recommended some sleeping bags and down blankets.
Germany’s not even that cold.
I was stationed there in the 80’s and I now live at 9500′ in the Rocky Mountains. I know cold and I can tell you Germany is fucking cold!
Germany never had such regularly cold winters as in the 1980s anymore.
(And no, I don’t believe that’s a sign of Globull Warming.)
I spent seven years in the Northern Rockies, and two years in Hamburg, and I can tell you Germany is fucking cold (the moisture there, at least in Hamburg, makes it worse).