{"id":3758,"date":"2023-07-18T19:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2023-07-18T19:13:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:13:40","slug":"europe-still-cannot-go-without-russian-gas-iea-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=3758","title":{"rendered":"Europe still cannot go without Russian gas, IEA warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The European Union has sufficient gas reserves for the winter but could face a shortage next year if Russia cuts supplies further, Reuters reported, citing a fresh report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). <\/p>\n<p>Despite Russia slashing gas deliveries this year, Europe has averted a severe shortage and started the winter with brimming gas storage tanks \u2013 thanks to EU emergency measures to fill storage and a lucky spell of mild weather.<\/p>\n<p>Yet next year could be an even tougher test than the energy crisis that this year hiked fuel bills for European households and forced industries to temporarily shut down.<\/p>\n<p>If Russia cuts the small share of gas it still supplies to Europe and China&#8217;s gas demand rebounds from lockdown-induced lows, the EU could face a gas shortfall of 27 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2023, the IEA said.<\/p>\n<p>The IEA said the shortage could be averted through saving energy, renovating gas-guzzling buildings, replacing fossil fuel-based heating with heat pumps, as well as massively expanding renewable energy.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has sufficient gas reserves for the winter but could face a shortage next year if Russia cuts supplies further, Reuters reported, citing a fresh report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Despite Russia slashing gas deliveries this year, Europe has averted a severe shortage and started the winter with brimming gas storage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}