Much of North America may face electricity shortages starting in 2024

Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by KingOfCoders on Monday December 25, 2023 @11:56AM (#38764090)

Energy intensive industries do not use electricity but gas.And Germany had some pretty below market deals with Russia for the German chem industry. Now it pays the same as everybody else.

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Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by ovi256 on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:02PM (#38764151)

And the gas supply bad new are not over. Ukraine's gas transit agreement with Russia, which allows RU to export nat gas through Ukraine to Poland, Germany and Austria, will expire in 2024 and Ukraine doesn't look in an easy mood to renew it.

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Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by hef19898 on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:03PM (#38764172)

Is Europe still geting Russian gas directly so?

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Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by ovi256 on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:12PM (#38764250)

Yes, 13% of non-LNG gas imports of 2022 were through land pipelines like those.

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Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by hef19898 on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:16PM (#38764280)

You call 13% dependence? If so, the EU (!), because that is an EU number, is equally depedant on Norway (11.6%)...

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