Last week,German gas consumption was 33,4 % lower than the average of the same week in the past 3 years. Household gas consumption fell 35,8 %,while industrial and power plant use fell 31,6%

5 comments

  2. important to note that a lot of gas used in industry is still gas used for heating buildings and for water heating for employee facilities

    many examples

    >**Car manufacturer Audi says it can substitute 20% of its gas consumption in the near term, e.g. by turning down the heating in offices. Only 10% of gas is irreplaceable (paint shop, ovens) and “the minimum amount of gas needed”.**
    >
    >
    >
    >Automotive supplier ZF says it should be able to **reduce gas consumption by 20% by**:
    >
    >- turning down heating
    >
    >- switching some production processes to electricity
    >
    >- switching others to oil
    >
    >- importing some parts from regions with lower energy prices
    >
    >
    >
    >Semiconductor manufacturer Infineon aims to save two thirds (!) of its gas consumption by the end of 2022. One main measure is switching the energy source for the air conditioning systems cooling the rooms where their microchips are manufactured from gas to oil.

    others are just switching gas boilers to oil,biomass or electricity

    >Yet another glass industry example, just like case 13:
    >
    >
    >
    >Special glass manufacture**r Schott can switch its melting furnaces from natural gas to propane gas if necessary**. To this end, it has already stocked up on large quantities of propane gas.
    >
    >
    >
    >**German pharma and chemicals manufacturer Merck says it can switch its production processes from gas to oil** and that it is “very well prepared” for any potential gas shortage.
    >
    >
    >
    >Oil giant ExxonMobil_EUsay they have reduced natural gas consumption in their European refineries “by 65%, that’s t**he equivalent gas used for powering about 2 million homes in Europe.**”

    [https://twitter.com/ben_moll/status/1556604349488500736](https://twitter.com/ben_moll/status/1556604349488500736) (very interesting thread about gas substitution measures in German industry)

    overall,you have to imagine that is easy to cut 10,20,30% of gas use in industry without harming production

    bigger cuts will be however more painful,as industry is cutting non-essential use first,and at some point there is no posible gas use cut without production cut ,on short term

    but we are not at that point

  4. Up until a few days ago it was quite a bit warmer than usual though. As much as I want to praise German restraint, this is for sure at least part of the explanation why consumption was rather low.

  5. Does ‘household consumption’ include schools, office buildings, shops, etc? I’m asking because you should remember that during the last two years something very unique happened and people had to stay home more than usual.

Leave a Reply