Gas consumption in Germany remains high in light of current tight supply. The inability to reduce natural gas consumption will only increase the risk of drawing down supplies in storage quicker. Despite the current demand, natural gas continues to be injected into storage. Germany is entering a dark winter with too much natural gas consumption and may be unable to avoid an energy “emergency” in the months ahead, the head of the country’s network regulator warned Thursday, according to WaPo . “Gas consumption increased by too much last week,” said Klaus Mueller, head of Germany’s network agency. With the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline system in the Baltic Sea and overall reduced natural gas flows from Russia amid the war in Ukraine, German households and businesses need to increase energy conservation more than ever as average temperatures across Europe’s largest economy are set to slide to near 5 […]