After hours of deliberations in the energy crisis cabinet led by Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP), the Turquoise Green government comes up with a success story: the necessary 76 terawatt hours, to be stored as a strategic reserve by the winter, are already more than 50 terawatt hours available in the storage facilities of the country. Progress is also being made with diversification.
Vice-chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) also tried to clarify the proportions again: “well over 50 percent of the total capacity” means more than a comparable value in Germany. Because Austria has “huge storage capacities relative to the population”. “If things continue like this, we will report 60 percent next week,” said Kogler, who, like Nehammer, said there was an “expressly constructive climate” at the deliberations, in which the opposition, the federal states, energy suppliers, social partners and experts also took part. part.
But Kogler also had “bad news” ready: it could well be that Russia will completely stop the gas supply due to the war or “on its own initiative”. “Maybe next year’s winter will be even more difficult,” the vice chancellor warned of a further escalation of the situation.
Source: Krone
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