German utilities get less Russia gas, tap reserves | Reuters
"Gazprom is sending around a third less today, with the bulk of volumes for E.ON Ruhrgas shipped via the Czech-German border point Waidhaus," E.ON's Essen-based subsidiary said in a statement.On Thursday, E.ON had said supplies were still running at normal levels. It reiterated in the statement that storage levels at its subsidiary EGS were at 74 percent, which is high for the time of year."Our customers in Germany are being served without any limitations," E.ON said.A spokeswoman for RWE said: "We are receiving around 30 percent less gas from Russia than normal, due to the big freeze in Eastern Europe."
"Gazprom is sending around a third less today, with the bulk of volumes for E.ON Ruhrgas shipped via the Czech-German border point Waidhaus," E.ON's Essen-based subsidiary said in a statement.
On Thursday, E.ON had said supplies were still running at normal levels. It reiterated in the statement that storage levels at its subsidiary EGS were at 74 percent, which is high for the time of year.
"Our customers in Germany are being served without any limitations," E.ON said.
A spokeswoman for RWE said: "We are receiving around 30 percent less gas from Russia than normal, due to the big freeze in Eastern Europe."
Gazprom on Friday insisted it was fulfilling all of its contracts. "Now these obligations are being carried out, but the customers are asking for larger volumes than we are obliged to supply to them," the head of pricing at Gazprom Export Sergei Komlev was quoted as saying.
OAO Gazprom is "perplexed" by reports of a decline in Russian natural-gas supplies to Europe, said Deputy Chief Executive Officer Alexander Medvedev, adding Ukraine is taking more fuel than contracted during a cold snap. Gazprom, Russia's gas exporter, is boosting gas supplies to the "maximum" to Europe, Ukraine and Belarus as the freezing weather raises demand, Medvedev said today in an e-mailed statement, after Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic reported imports had fallen. "Amid the freezing winter in Russia and Europe, our company has boosted gas supplies to the maximum," Medvedev said. "Offtake of gas from European storage has quadrupled in the past week."
Gazprom, Russia's gas exporter, is boosting gas supplies to the "maximum" to Europe, Ukraine and Belarus as the freezing weather raises demand, Medvedev said today in an e-mailed statement, after Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic reported imports had fallen.
"Amid the freezing winter in Russia and Europe, our company has boosted gas supplies to the maximum," Medvedev said. "Offtake of gas from European storage has quadrupled in the past week."
I find it fascinating that there can be so much condusion on these issues. Some technical complexity, vested and or criminal interests and confused reporting, and no one who hasn't got a Ph.d. in Russo-Ukrainian gas relations get what's actually happening. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Ironically, natural gas-free Sweden is in truble as well, and we've had to start our reserve oil-fired power plants. Why? Because 4 out of 10 reactors are offline, due to repairs, uprates, problems and so on. This is the third winter in a row with this problem. Conspiracy theories refuse to go away from the media (and they might be true), about how the power oligopoly keep the nukes offline to maximise their profits. The beauty of oligopoly combined with marginal cost power pricing... Thank god for my hedge in the form of Fortum stock.
Stenungsund power plant. At 820 MW, it's the biggest oil-fired power plant in Europe, located completely underground to boot. As a reserve plant, it's still in mint condition, with block 1-2 a 50's vintage work of art, and block 3-4 the 60's variety. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Modern wind turbines do not use such stacks.
PS. The attempt managed by the States of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenberg to reverse the wind turbines and prevent the Russian high pressure-induced icy cold front from crossing the border ended in failure. The turbines were simply not strong enough, and the icy Siberian winds continued their march. The general population was outraged, and blamed the government and environmentalists for not developing enough wind turbines to get the job done. They cited the extra costs of icebreakers on the Elbe as an example of how wind can avoid costs which the politicians seem unaware, but which society must bear. FC Schalke fans, proudly wearing their Gazprom Trikots, demanded that wind turbines be erected on the roof of the Stadion to prevent the frigid winds from freezing their Veltins. Some scientists reported that the experiment was not only a failure, but slowed down the earth's rotation enough to actually accelerate the intrusion of the icy winds. The Frauenhofer Institute for Wind Reversal dismissed the claims as "unscientific poppycock," although the Stop Earth's Revolution Party, or Syrup dismissed Frauenhofer as "unscientific poppycock."
The general population was outraged, and blamed the government and environmentalists for not developing enough wind turbines to get the job done. They cited the extra costs of icebreakers on the Elbe as an example of how wind can avoid costs which the politicians seem unaware, but which society must bear.
FC Schalke fans, proudly wearing their Gazprom Trikots, demanded that wind turbines be erected on the roof of the Stadion to prevent the frigid winds from freezing their Veltins.
Some scientists reported that the experiment was not only a failure, but slowed down the earth's rotation enough to actually accelerate the intrusion of the icy winds. The Frauenhofer Institute for Wind Reversal dismissed the claims as "unscientific poppycock," although the Stop Earth's Revolution Party, or Syrup dismissed Frauenhofer as "unscientific poppycock."
BILD noted rich Germans may have decreased the efficiency of the wind turbines by their habit of stealing the copper cabling to wire their vacation homes in non-windy areas. UBS will not release the names of those accumulating copper. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
