Posted on 11/08/2023 9:22:58 PM PST by Cronos
Germany is facing its second winter without gas deliveries from Russia. But analysts say that for gas shortages to really bite, a lot of things would have to go wrong. Germans themselves are optimistic.
In the first year of it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow tried to capitalize on concerns that energy would become scarce in Europe during the cold winter months. The Russians even made a short video to feed these fears, featuring tales of how Germans would freeze without supplies from Russia's Gazprom.
The Russian state-owned company halted all gas deliveries to Germany in late August 2022. But now, according to a recent study commissioned by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), only 14% of Germans surveyed believe the upcoming winter could bring supply shortages.
This autumn, 64% of Germans believe they will get through the winter without any major problems — even if the supply situation remains patchy. In fact, 18% believe the situation is quite comfortable and are convinced that Germany will get through the winter without any problems at all. Only 4% were indecisive.
That means "four out of five participants surveyed believed Germany was well prepared for the upcoming winter," the BDEW reported.
" Thanks to the good cooperation between the energy industry and politicians on the issue of supply security over the past year-and-a-half, we can now be relatively optimistic about the supply situation this winter," said BDEW managing director Kerstin Andreae.
Klaus Müller, president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), the German regulatory office for electricity, gas and telecommunications, also said the country is in a much better position going into this winter. He noted that German gas storage facilities were full by November 5, and that gas imports were stable
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You were continuously posting last year about Germany freezing...
Three weeks of 10 degree weather in Berlin will change attitudes quickly.
Germany is suffering and will be suffering for decades because of this stupid war they pushed for.
NATO is practically begging for it to be over. (See, mainstream media openly discussing how western diplos want negotiations with Russia.) But Russia is now is in a stronger position than before this war.
Didn’t happen last year despite you repeating Putin’s propaganda.
Wait to be proven wrong again, allendale
This war was pushed for and started by Putin.
All of Europe is topped up and the USA is now the world’s largest exporter of NG. Europe is our #1 customer.
https://www.celsiusenergy.net/p/european-natural-gas-inventories.html
Interesting...
Time will tell.......
We’ll see in the spring how well that worked out for them.
So, if they are all set, why did Biden blow up the pipeline ?
(my view was that the energy crisis would be this year, not last year. GER better hope that global warming is real).
Biden actually laid the groundwork for it to happen.
Troll.
Is one of your Ukie mods on station, waiting for flames?
Chancellor Oaf Doltz - the clown that brought Germany down.
1) It does not matter what surveys say about attitudes. All that matters is sufficient or insufficient. That is not affected by opinion.
2) Germany consumed 91.7 billion cubic meters of gas in 2021, during Covid. (Globally, Covid had only modest impact on gas consumption. It’s a necessity of life, regardless of viruses). In 2022, last year, with a warm winter, they consumed 77 billion cubic meters. All European countries had a decline in consumption from the warm winter — including Russia and Belarus.
3) Germany produced 4 billion cubic meters last year. Consumption 77 per above.
4) Norway produces 122 bcm of gas and consumes only 4. Nowhere else in Europe produces any significant numbers. Total Europe consumption last year 499 bcm. These countries were making up the shortfall not only with Russian gas, but also from Qatar and Iran. Those two countries are maxed out in what they can ship, and of course, Iran is sanctioned and has no desire to deal with Europe.
Germany already suffered a decline in consumption. Was all of it temperature? No. They shut down manufacturing in order to keep the populace warm. The real problem they face is competition for gas from other European countries. And no, it will not be a bidding war. If it doesn’t exist, it does not matter what you are willing to pay for it.
4)
Don’t be so naive.
In 2008 NATO said it would bring Ukraine into NATO. Putin said that would mean war.
Russia tried several times to negotiate an alternative security arrangement. NATO and the US said f*** off.
NATO wanted this war. Now they are begging for a ceasefire. It wasn’t worth a single Ukr or RU soldier’s life nor the billions $$ wasted.
Neocons will roast in hell for this.
The “Black Forrest” is full of firewood (in vertical storage).
Merkel gets the blame too. She had an opportunity to nip this in the bud in 2008. Initially, she resisted NATO's insistence on inviting UKr into NATO. In the end, she folded and went along with the US and GB to announce that Ukraine will become part of NATO
West will choke on Russia's terms for the Ukraine [37:07]
It was always about propping up "basement dwelling Buy-DUNG"
The poopy pants POTUS ran on being "safe" against the CCP-cooties aka "COVID"
As the great hoak becamce exposed another boogeyman had to emerge, namely the allegedy "Russian invasion of Ukraine"...but this happened sooner than the lead time needed to produe tens of millions of blue over yellow "COVID face masks".
THAT was GREAT TIMING!
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