The cut in gas supplies from Moscow continues. If the reductions were to continue for a long time, the storage mechanism could be further jeopardized, that is the gas reserves that will be used for the winter, already slowing down due to high gas prices.
It is precisely on the issue of stocks, therefore, that the work of the government is focusing, which this week will be busy taking stock of the situation, identifying measures for a storage plan and evaluating the possibility of raising the alert level.
From pre-alarm to alarm
In fact, the meeting of the Technical Committee for Emergency and Natural Gas Monitoring, established at the Ministry for Ecological Transition, is scheduled for Tuesday 21 June: a meeting of a technical nature, but which has on the table the topic of the possible rise from the current state of pre-alarm to alarm . Although some sources warn that the Committee may not even make any decisions. In the middle of the week, perhaps Wednesday, Minister Roberto Cingolani will assess the situation with the Committee: a meeting in which gas supply companies should also participate. Only then could Prime Minister Mario Draghi take stock with the ministers concerned.
Possible autonomous decisions of Cingolani
Tomorrow new measures are possible with particular attention to the filling of the storage areas, which do not require, government sources specify, the transition from the state of pre-alarm to alarm. The Minister of Ecological Transition, in fact, on the basis of a law of the Decree containing ‘Urgent measures to contain the costs of electricity and natural gas, for the development of renewable energy and for the relaunch of industrial policies’ of last March , can decide on extraordinary safeguard interventions independently, without the need for the transition to a state of alarm.
Deposits 54% full but 90% must be reached
The situation at the moment sees supplies from Moscow continue at half volumes. But if the cuts do not currently have an impact on citizens, given that we are in summer and at the moment the supply is still higher than the demand, we look with apprehension at the winter. Deposits are 54% full, but it is necessary to reach 90% and the increase in prices has led companies – which in normal summer times buy the gas at a lower price and store the extra one – to a slowdown in the market. storage, with the incentives introduced in recent months that are no longer enough.
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