Saving gas by extending the Christmas break: If the holidays were extended to January 9th, “productivity would not be greatly damaged,” says Leopoldina Vice President Robert Schlögl.
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Dusseldorf The gas storage tanks are well filled, the level is currently more than 95 percent. But is there enough gas for the winter? Experts have been discussing the circumstances under which sufficient energy is available for months. These are your new discoveries.
What is the current energy consumption?
In the past week, gas consumption per day averaged 608 gigawatt hours and was thus 31 percent lower than in the same calendar weeks from 2018 to 2021 (881 gigawatt hours), the Federal Network Agency announced on Thursday in Bonn. The decline is due to the relatively warm weather, but also to deliberate savings. “That’s encouraging, we have to continue like this,” said Netzagentur boss Klaus Müller. Industry used an average of 1152 gigawatt hours. A year ago it was almost 400 gigawatt hours more.
What is the Federal Network Agency’s forecast?
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