Great Britain has only two days of fossil gas stored after a decline in energy reserves, as more tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) are diverted from their course to Europe towards Asia because of the Iran war.
Great Britain had 6,999 gigawatt hours (GWh) of fossil gas stored on Saturday, according to figures from National Gas, which owns and operates the gas national transmission system. This compares with 9,105 GWh a year earlier.
Maximum capacity is 12 days of gas, and current storage levels equate to under two days of reserves, leading to concerns that Great Britain could run out of gas if the crisis in the Middle East escalates further.
So is this a lie then?
A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “It is categorically untrue that the UK only has access to two days of gas supply. We have a diverse energy mix and are confident in our security of supply.
That’s weaseling.
They have access to diverse supply. The reserves in hand are a different topic.
Those are not mutually exclusive statements. One talks about gas reserves actually stored right now. If all gas supply gets cut off UK will run out of gas in 2 days. If gas supply drops they only have these reserves to help them offset this while they look for new sources.
The spokesperson says they have access to more supplies. This can mean they have ships and pipelines delivering them more gas all the time and that they have those supplies secured for more than two days. He says that sources this gas are diverse and that they are not worried about this being disrupted.
Sure glad we let the Nimby’s dictate infrastructure
Who is nimby?
People who oppose building anything.
It’s a US term vastly abused by YIMBY/Developer simps who want a libertarian approach to house construction, to cover everyone from environmentalist who don’t want giant AI datacenters built nextdoor to them to people who think a % of newly built homes should be affordable.
Yeah TrueNIMBYs™ exist but the vast majority of “NIMBYs” are people with legitimate concerns that could be addressed if developers made slightly less money on their project.
Acronym for Not In My Back Yard
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I think it’s the acronym for “not in my backyard”.
Basically residents that oppose things that are needed for the community, like certain infrastructure, because it affects their property values or changes their neighborhood but aren’t opposed to it elsewhere.
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It’s sensationalist. Britain gets less than 10% of its gas supply from the Middle East. 2 days reserve is the normal everyday amount. 12 days is imminent threat of invasion levels.
After an invasion. What does gb plan to do 12 days later, after running dry of gas?
Nukes probably
“sOmEtiMEs itS nOT wiNdY aNd tHE SuN doEsNt alWaYs ShiNe”
Yeah, well there sure seems to increasingly be supply chain issues for the precious fossil fuels.
Great point.
It would be funny if future generations held descendants accountable for their ancestor’s stance on fossil fuels.
Britain is aware, as the first developed country to have entirely phased out coal generation. This has in the interim put the onus on gas to supply the hot spinning baseline until nuclear gets back on top.
Disappointingly there are still right wing pundits who are pro fossil fuels.
Isn’t it more that the national gas storage was sold off/ privatised, and the private operators decided it’s more profitable to have less storage?
UK doing UK things.
UK still doing Thatcher things.
It was May not Thatcher who dismantled gas storage.
Still a Thatcherite.
I think a Thatcherite would take offense at that 😅
All the better
Maximum capacity is 12 days of gas
Gas is hard to store so reserves are small. Times like this with price increases and warmer weather is exactly when you lower reserves to create temporary supply to depress price inflation. When prices are better, or as winter approaches, you buy extra to fill the reserves back up.
Britain’s gas storage levels are broadly in line with what we would expect at this point in the year and are comparable to this time last year.
