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Due to lower natural gas reserves than usual, there is a risk of electricity shortages in Switzerland. With restrictions on consumption, Switzerland wants to avoid blackouts.
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Switzerland braces itself to avoid power cuts. When shortages threaten, in the first place families and facilities such as swimming pools will be asked to reduce their electricity consumption. But the industry will also have to make an effort, writes the Swiss NZZ am Sonntag.
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Some 30,000 companies that consume more than 100,000 kWh per year, the equivalent of about 30 families, must prepare for possible reductions in their consumption of 10 to 30 percent in the event of a power shortage.
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The companies will soon receive a letter about this from Ostral, the sector organization responsible for tackling energy crises in Switzerland. ‘All major consumers will be obliged to save a certain amount of energy.’
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natural gas
The low gas stocks in Europe are the result of fewer supplies from Russia, higher consumption due to the economic recovery and the misjudgment of the situation by gas traders. Because market parties have been buying additional gas en masse for several weeks now, the prices for the supply of natural gas are 4 to 5 times higher than normal in the short term. High gas prices have also pushed electricity prices sharply higher.
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