Will gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline resume Thursday after a maintenance stop? That is the question that is currently haunting politics and business. The pipeline is scheduled to resume service, but will not do so at full capacity, at least two people familiar with the process told Reuters.
The energy expert Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research was generally rather skeptical. “So we have to be prepared that it probably won’t happen that we get more gas. Russia could also currently deliver more through the routes, through Poland or Ukraine. That doesn’t matter. In that respect we just have to focus on it now agree that it might take longer.” What that means: “It’s important not to panic. We’re still getting gas. We’ll still have over 60 percent of our gas next winter.
But it is important to conserve gas and please do whatever you can to replace it. So anything goes, please be vigilant and bring about change. Also to the politicians: bring forward more austerity measures. We have more options, especially in industry, and we also give more bonuses for households saving, so that we can finally bring consumption down further. This is so necessary.”
However, the economist gave a clear rejection of a possible reactivation of nuclear power plants. “Extending the lifetime of nuclear power plants is not advisable because the effort is very high and the yield very low. So there is a ghost debate at work, which is more politically motivated, but not energy-related.” 1 had historically routed more than a third of Russian gas exports to the European Union.
Source: Stern
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