Habeck said on Thursday before a visit to Bremen that the last few days had shown how important it is to free oneself from dependence on Russia. The expansion of renewable energy is also a matter of national and European security. In a video distributed via Twitter, the Green politician also called again to save energy. “Now is the time to do it.” Every kilowatt hour helps.
Russian ambassador “threatens” failure
After the reduction, one cannot rule out the complete shutdown of the most important supply line for Germany. Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said Thursday at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg that the line could be shut down completely because of problems with repairing turbines in Canada.
“I think it would be a disaster for Germany,” he said, according to Russian newspaper Kommersant. Germany should consider repairing the turbines on its own territory so they don’t have to be shipped to Canada, the diplomat said. As announced, Russian energy company Gazprom further reduced its gas deliveries to Germany via Nord Stream on Thursday night. The gas giant justified the step by delaying repair work.
reduced deliveries
As announced, Gazprom further reduced its gas supply to Germany via the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea on Thursday night. As can be seen from the transport data published on the internet by the gas pipeline operator Nord Stream, the volume of gas dropped as of 11pm on Wednesday night. In the morning, at the beginning of the so-called gas day, at 6 am, the hourly volume of delivery was around 2.6 million cubic meters (29 million kilowatt-hours), from 8 am to 9 am, according to the information, about 2.7 million cubic meters (30 million kilowatt-hours) flowed. Extrapolated to 24 hours, this corresponds to approximately 40% of the technical capacity announced by Gazprom.
Gazprom announced on Wednesday that it would again reduce gas delivery volumes via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from the Baltic Sea to Germany. As of Thursday night, only a maximum of 67 million cubic meters are to be pumped through the pipeline each day.