A surge in gas prices has seen UK energy suppliers go broke and the prospect of rising household bills.Does the UK face a gas shortage this winter?misguided to start talking about gas shortages"There is no question of the lights going out, of people being unable to heat their homes. There will be no three-day working week, or a throwback to the 1970s," he said.
What's more, the UK has scant storage facilities - it's been increasingly operating a "just-in-time model".And, if needed, it does have the power to impose emergency measures, such as ordering big industrial customers to temporarily stop using gas. Liquid natural gas , transported by ship from the likes of Qatar, has increasingly been in demand in the UK, but there's competition for supplies from the likes of China.
The UK has been badly hit because it's one of Europe's biggest users of natural gas - 85% of homes use gas central heating, and it also generates a third of our electricity.Even without a big freeze, bills are heading up. October's increase in the fuel cap - the maximum customers can be charged - will mean many annual household fuel bills rising by £135 or more.
'Russia been accused of restricting supply for political reasons (it wants to build a controversial pipeline across the Baltic sea).' [sic] Accused by the US wishing to sell LNG + Ukraine which took hostage gas transit for Western Europe for their blackmail in 2009? NS2 finished
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Human living in the North should really be getting fatter.
Total failure in government. How can we be on 2021 and be having problems like it's the 70s? 12 years the Tories have been in power, everything is worse.
Kwasi Kwarteng said in parliament that over 50% of our gas comes from our continental shelf around Britain so way are we not getting 100% from it an then we wouldn't need gas from the EU and our gas bills would be lower.
Where is the Russian pipeline to Europe? Where is the Russian petrol?
Are you serious? We do not pay a license fee for you to stir up trouble where there possibly isn’t any. Don’t be so irresponsible,we all know you’re left but you needn’t go this far!!!
Here we go another scare story from the BBC !
It due to domestic production being abandoned parts of the political circle thinking there promoting “Green” policy so UK becomes reliant on GAS imports from Russia
Good luck, electric car owners!
There isn’t! Give the shortage agenda a rest, stop making shit up! More scaremongering from the scumbbc
You guys don’t have gas and petrol? Hectic.
Please stop these type of headlines, we've had enough of fear induced hoarding
Another media headline to try n scare people 😴
Because we have closed our coal fuel power stations before we have got a renewable option up and running properly because the climate crisis has been 8gnored for 30 years.
Because the UK isn’t drilling for its own.
Scaremongering to the highest degree, 1st petrol now gas, what next oxygen
Brexit
FFS. More militant, jihadist, radical Woke leftardation hysteria and propaganda 🤣
Queue mass panic buying on electrical heaters 🙄
Loss of fart?
Question: why is the BBC scaremongering?
Don't start panic about another shortage ffs.
Oles management of man united is effecting the line ?
I don't think there is a shortage is there? Just high prices. Yet again, BBC attempting to induce panic.
Why is the Twitter algorithm not allowing me to share news on the gas shortage? This is like when it was actively repressing search on the global forest fire crisis.
I think that guy needs to see someone sharpish - it's 20-odd degrees out there, not sure he needs that many layers.
Good job we permitted fracking to get at our vast gas reserves.
Because we didn't eat the rich when we had the chance.
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