Europe is bracing for the possibility that a key pipeline that brings natural gas from Russia to Germany won’t reopen as scheduled after routine maintenance. That’ll mean problems, even if it opens at reduced levels. Here’s what to know.
It has left the 27-member EU scrambling to, when demand rises and utility companies draw down their reserves to keep homes warm and power plants running.
Gas is used across a range of processes that most people never see — to forge steel to make cars, make glass bottles and pasteurize milk and cheese. The head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, tweeted that planned deliveries of some 800 gigawatt hours’ worth of gas through Nord Stream 1 were notified for Thursday, but he noted “disclaimers that that could still change by tomorrow.” In the days leading up to the closure for maintenance, gas supplies ran at about 700 gigawatt hours per day.
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