Germany’s Top Regulator Urges Consumers to Save Gas as Cuts Loom
An employee monitors for gas leaks during safety checks at a natural gas storage facility, in Muhldorf, Germany.
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Germany’s top energy regulator urged consumers and industry to scale back natural-gas consumption to help fill storage sites ahead of the next heating season after Russia curtailed deliveries.
“The current reductions of Russian gas deliveries can put all of us -- consumers as well as industry -- in a very serious situation,” Klaus Mueller, who heads the Bundesnetzagentur agency, wrote on Twitter. “As long as we can, we must avoid this through gas savings and -storage.”