Blackouts will be caused intentionally to protect supply networks
Germany could face temporary and regionally limited blackouts, especially in the months of January and February, according to warnings from the president of the Federal Bureau of Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (BBK), Ralph Tiesler. “We have to take into account power outages this winter, and by that I mean regional and temporary power outages,” Tiesler said ahead of Sunday’s statements in Welt am Sonntag. The cause will not only be the shortage of energy, but the punctual, accurate and temporary closure of the networks by the responsible companies in order to protect them and prevent a threat to the entire supply.
“The risk increases especially in January and February, so we assume that from then on there will be interruptions in the electricity supply at some points and for a certain time,” Tiesler notes in the conservative Sunday paper. The chairman of the BBK also criticizes the fact that the public administration is insufficiently prepared to deal with possible blackouts. Some municipalities and governments are “prepared in an exemplary manner”, with concrete plans to ensure supplies with local generators, but “others are worse off because they are not sufficiently prepared. There are big differences,’ says the expert.
Almost at the same time, the “Save energy” initiative of the Association of Companies Storing Gas and Hydrogen in Germany (INES) provides positive and optimistic data. According to his analysis, this country will get through this winter and the next without any problems, even if the gas supply from Russia remains cut off as so far. If “extremely low temperatures” are not recorded in the coming months, a shortage is “highly unlikely,” says the report, which highlights that gas tanks in this country are more than 99% full and will be filled sooner without any problems. the winter of the following year, although in the year about to begin they are completely empty.
The study presents three scenarios with a normal winter, a warm and a very cold third and concludes that the leading European economy will be able to avoid rationing the gas needed to feed industry, electricity generation and private consumer heating. “The filling of the gas tanks has meant that we are expected to get through the coming winter well,” said the head of INES, Sebastian Bleschke.
Germany is spending billions of euros to deal with the current energy crisis that affects much of the European continent. In view of the interruption of the Russian gas supply, the Chancellor’s Executive, Olaf Scholz, committed to the liquefied gas supplied by sea and to minimize the generation of electricity with gas-fired power stations, has extended the life of several cogeneration coal and nuclear power plants. The weather is also supporting these efforts, as mild autumn temperatures have delayed the start-up of heaters.
Source: La Verdad
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