Big U.K. Energy Users Want Urgent Measures to Ease Crisis
- Energy Intensive Users Group says emergency measures needed
- That will help large users to keep operating this winter
A petrol tanker at the Kingsbury Fuel Terminal near Tamworth, U.K., on Sept. 24.
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The U.K. government must roll out emergency measures quickly to help industrial energy users cope with the gas crisis, or face business shutting down this winter, a lobby group warned.
Europe’s gas crunch has hit sectors from fertilizers to metals, and there’ll likely be production halts and disruption to supply chains without government action, the Energy Intensive Users Group said Tuesday. It urged the U.K. to use emergency measures, including containing costs on gas, power and carbon prices to allow the most exposed companies to keep producing essential goods.