EU’s natural gas reduction plan in effect

After the battle between Russia and Ukraine, which began on February 24, worldwide power disaster is going on.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EU Fee, shared in regards to the natural gas emergency plan on her social media account.

Consumption lowered by 15 p.c

“Our contingency plan to scale back natural gas demand throughout the EU is now in place“ Von der Leyen acknowledged that they goal to scale back using natural gas by not less than 15 p.c.

Von der Leyen identified that power saving is important for Europe’s power provide safety.

The emergency plan, ready by the EU in opposition to the potential for interruption of the natural gas circulation from Russia, envisages that the member nations scale back their gas demand by 15 p.c from the common of the previous 5 years between 1 August 2022 and 31 March 2023.

It’s also included in the plan {that a} 15 p.c reduce is necessary in case of an emergency, however the declaration of an emergency requires the approval of 15 nations with not less than 65 p.c of the Union’s inhabitants.

It’s aimed to avoid wasting 45 billion cubic meters

The plan goals to avoid wasting 45 billion cubic meters of natural gas yearly.

On account of negotiations between member states, many nations had been exempted from the gas consumption reduction plan.

Essential industries that aren’t linked to the gas grids of different member states, whose electrical energy grids aren’t synchronized with the European electrical energy system, that are largely depending on gas for electrical energy era, which have restricted interconnection with different member states, who use their liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure to different nations, and whose energy grids are out of sync with the European electrical energy system. Exceptions had been granted to nations that had been closely dependent and exceeded their natural gas storage goal.

Thus, many nations, together with Italy and Spain, had been exempted from the plan.