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[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

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, and that'd have an indirect effect on the UK, depending upon the contractual situation with Norway.

I mean, Bangladesh was not, as far as I know, getting natural gas from Russia at all, but when the European energy crisis happened, they promptly got priced out of the market and had blackouts.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/asia/bangladesh-blackouts-power-grid-failure-intl/index.html

Many parts of Bangladesh have experienced frequent power cuts this year despite efforts to ration gas supplies amid high global natural gas prices.

Natural gas accounts for nearly three-quarters of the country’s power generation.

Over a third of the 77 gas-powered units in Bangladesh were facing a gas shortage, government data showed on Tuesday.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 which includes Russia.