Germany Asks Companies About Gas Usage in Case of Russia Cutoff

Germany’s energy regulator will ask companies about their gas consumption to help determine how to ration supplies in case Russian deliveries are cut off, a person familiar with the matter said.

All companies using more than 10 megawatt hours a year will receive a questionnaire from Bundesnetzagentur, the person said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. As many as 15,000 companies in the industrial heartland of North Rhine Westphalia alone will be asked to provide data.