More than 70% of Germans try to conserve gas and electricity, as well as vehicle fuel.
German authorities are preparing additional measures to save gas in connection with the reduction in supplies from Russia. This was stated by Vice-Chancellor, German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habek, reported by the dpa agency yesterday.
Thus, the use of gas in industry and for electricity production should be reduced, and the filling of storage facilities, on the contrary, should be accelerated. Federal authorities will allocate billions of dollars of funding for these purposes. In addition, it is planned to use more coal-fired power plants.
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“Obviously, Putin’s strategy is to plant uncertainty in us, raise prices and divide us,” Khabek said.
To ensure the occupation of storage facilities, the German government will soon provide an additional line of credit for 15 billion euros through state-owned bank KfW, the dpa reported, citing sources of the government. The allocation of credit was discussed with the German Ministry of Finance. This will be announced to the Bundestag Budget Committee next week.
In addition, industrial consumers who can reduce gas consumption will receive compensation, it will be supplied in market order.
As you know, this week the Russian concerns Gazprom has significantly reduced gas supplies to Germany through the Nord Stream pipeline. At 06:00 am on June 16, the hourly pumping volume was approximately 2.6 million cubic meters (29 million kilowatt-hours), from 08:00 to 09:00 the number reached 2.7 million cubic meters. meters (30 million kilowatt-hours), followed from the tracking system. When calculating the daily volume, taking into account these data, the upper threshold is 64.8 million cubic meters.
Earlier, on June 14, Gazprom announced that it would reduce supplies to Germany by more than 40%. This should be about 100 million cubic meters per day – instead of the usual volume of 167 million cubic meters. The reason was the delay in repairing the equipment that had depleted its resource, which was handled by the concern of German Siemens.
It was later announced that daily production would drop to 67 million cubic meters from June 16. Gazprom explained this by “stopping the operation of another Siemens gas turbine engine” at the Portovaya compressor station.
Later, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy and France also reported reductions in gas supplies from Russia.
According to a survey by the Forsa Institute, the results of which were published on Saturday, June 18, by the German TV channels RTL and n-tv, 72% of Germans are trying to save gas and electricity, as also car fuel. .
Another 11% of respondents indicated that they will start saving energy in the near future. At the same time, 15% of respondents said they did not plan to do so.
Source: Deutsche Welle Russian Service
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