German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has encouraged his compatriots in the energy crisis. “We will arm ourselves as a country because we are a country of solidarity. We’ll get through it,” said the SPD politician in his weekly video message published on Saturday. The people of Germany felt that they were living in serious times. “But we have prepared ourselves,” assured the chancellor.
Russia is poised to halt most of its gas supplies due to the war against Ukraine. After maintenance work and an alleged technical defect, nothing has been flowing to Germany via the Nord Stream line since last week. The government in Berlin is preparing for this to continue.
“But we have prepared,” Scholz said, referring to the construction of liquefied gas terminals on the northern German coasts, the fill level of the gas storage facilities, the use of coal-fired power stations and, if necessary, further nuclear power plants.
The German federal government has set the target that the German gas storage tanks must be 95 percent full by November 1, at the start of the heating period. At the last known level on Thursday, it was 87.2 percent and thus 0.3 percentage points more within a day, according to data from European storage managers.
Source: Krone
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