(Finance) – According to what reported by Ansa there is also the mandatory cut of consumption at EU level in the event of a crisis on supplies from gas among the measures contained in the new draft of EU plan for the reduction of gas demand, which will be presented tomorrow. The references (contained in a first version of the text) to the obligation for the buildings public to limit the heating to 19 degrees and the air conditioners to 25. Introduced the principle of “maximum effort“for energy reduction. An effort which, in the event of a supply crisis, would become binding at EU level.
The Commission proposal consists of one communication it’s a attached which will include a proposal for a regulation, therefore a legislative act that is compulsory in all European countries. In the last two pages of the attachment two are imagined scenarios, “pre-alarm” and “alarm”. The first provides for the approval of a regulation indicating a target volunteer reduction of demand in all States, according to the principle of “maximum effort”. The reduction percentage is not in the document and will probably be discussed tomorrow in College of Commissioners. In situation of alarm, the cut in consumption would become mandatory. Again, the percentage is unknown.
“We are working on all possible scenarios and one of the scenarios we have” is “the possibility that the gas flow will not resume”, explained the spokesperson for the Energy Commission. Tim McPhie responding in particular to the question whether the Commission expects flows on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to stop. “While we are preparing winter emergency plans we are based on the worst possible scenario and this is absolutely obvious,” added the spokesperson. Eric Mamer.
Meanwhile the International Monetary Fund he stressed that gas supply disruptions represent a “significant economic risk to Europe. A sustained full cut would cause shortages in Central and Eastern European countries which could experience GDP losses of up to 6%. Also in Italy the impact would be significant even if there is a greater potential to secure alternative supplies. The effects in Austria And Germany they would be less severe but still significant “.