The heat does not let you forget that it is still summer, and European countries are slowly preparing for winter and filling gas tanks. There will be less and less gas from Russia in them. Italy has reduced supplies from Russia to almost zero. Poland, in turn, did not stop deliveries from Russia, contrary to statements.
Warehouses in the EU are 91 percent full. This is almost 30 percent. EU demand. Polish warehouses are 93% full, but only 15% will be satisfied. domestic demand. “We met our requirements for filling gas storage facilities ahead of schedule. This is proof that the EU is well prepared for winter and will help stabilize markets even more in the coming months,” commented Kadri Simson, EU Energy Commissioner.
Until last year, as much as 40 percent. gas supplied to the European Union came from Russia. Some countries have reduced purchases from this direction to almost zero. The Italians did it. The country has established pipeline supplies along various routes and increased the share of LNG entering sea terminals. Next year, Pichetto-Fratin added, a seaside LNG plant in Ravenna will be put into operation, Rzeczpospolita reports.
Gas supplies. Polish cars on Russian gas
And what does our break with Russian gas look like? Money.pl wrote in June that not only had Poland not stopped buying Russian LPG, but it was still basing the bulk of its LPG imports on supplies from Russia. According to data prepared by Bartosz Kwiatkowski, director of the Polish Liquefied Gas Association, in the first quarter of 2023, purchases in Moscow accounted for 50.8 percent. According to Eurostat and Forum Energii, in 2022 we bought LPG from the Russians for 710 million euros (although the share of Russian gas in imports to Poland in 2022 was 47.1 percent), and the rest of the EU countries combined - for 417 million Euro. .
In Poland, LPG is used mainly as vehicle gas. Almost 75% of electricity is spent on fuel. Resources.
For clarity: almost every second Polish driver, filling up with LPG, pours Russian gasoline into the tank. And what about the government that likes to point out that we are in the forefront of ditching Russian sources? Back in April 2022, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that Poland would stop importing Russian LPG by the end of the year, but nothing like that happened.
Politicians have assured us that we no longer use Russian LPG
In February 2023, the Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskva, when asked on the air of Polish Radio 1 whether we still import hydrocarbons from the east, answered: “There is no more gas: no LNG, no pipeline, no gas from Russia.” The third part of the answer was already incorrect at the moment the minister uttered this phrase, and this has not changed over time. LPG is still not subject to sanctions, although without EU sanctions, the government could block the import of this type of gas.
True, we no longer import natural gas from Russia. In 2021, Russian gas accounted for about 87 percent. gas imports to Poland, including transportation to Germany via the Yamal gas pipeline. In 2022, only 20 percent. Russia accounted for gas imports, and in the first quarter of 2023, Poland did not import Russian gas at all.
Source: Wprost
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