Comment on National Gas explores paying UK households to turn down heating | Financial Times

Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  For gas? I haven’t heard of anything changing, we are still reliant on Russia so I can’t see why we would t have winter shortages.

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  • tal@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/uk-gas-sources

    UK natural gas imports by country of origin (in 2021)

    Natural gas (in metric tons)

    Country	Natural gas (metric tons)
    Norway	1,440,000
    United States	92,000
    Denmark	45,000
    Belgium	45,000
    Russia	12,000
    France	8,000

    That's not a very high proportion that was coming from Russia even before the invasion.

    Maybe demand for Norwegian gas has increased due to other countries that did import a lot from Russia wanting to import from Norway.

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    • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      This is what I meant.

      We is not exclusively the UK, but if other countries are then we (the UK) are indirectly reliant on it not causing everyone else to come for our gas.

      We gave away our North Sea resources, and now we are subject to the global market.

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