{"id":6636,"date":"2022-09-06T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2022-09-06T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:58:12","slug":"france-preparing-disused-pipeline-to-supply-more-winter-gas-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/national\/2022\/09\/06\/news\/6636\/","title":{"rendered":"France preparing disused pipeline to supply more winter gas to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6637\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/br-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Minister for Energy Transition Agn\u00e8s Pannier-Runacher says that \u201cmutual solidarity of gas and electricity exchanges\u201d with Germany and Spain will help France in the winter. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PARIS, Broadcasting News Corporation : France is reactivating a disused pipeline in its northeastern Moselle administrative department, originally built for east-to-west flows, to send Germany gas under an energy deal unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron, according to French officials. France will be able to deliver 130 gigawatt hours (GWh) per day, a tiny fraction of German needs, French energy ministry officials have previously said, while Germany will be ready to provide France power in the event of tight supplies mid-winter. Macron is under pressure to shore up France\u2019s power imports, with the country\u2019s state-run power giant EDF grappling with a record number of nuclear reactor outages that are aggravating Europe\u2019s energy crisis. For its part, Germany has been at the sharp end of Russian cuts to European gas supplies, resulting in worries that persistently low Russian volumes could lead to winter shortages. Europe\u2019s leaders have talked up the need for present a united front against the fallout from Russia\u2019s actions. \u201cMacron is under pressure because of the electricity situation in France. So the signal \u2018Germany and France support each other\u2019 is important,\u201d a German government source told Reuters. \u201cWe do not expect that France will solve our gas problems. But every possible delivery of gas is a sign to the markets that we will pull through the winter.\u201d The reactivated interconnector will allow France to deliver Germany up to 20 terawatt hours (TWh) of gas from its reserves over the winter \u2014 equivalent to roughly 2 percent of the gas needs of Europe\u2019s largest economy. Before the war in Ukraine and the cuts to Russian deliveries, gas typically flowed from east to west across the continent. France already delivers some gas to Germany, typically via Belgium or Switzerland. West-to-east flows through the Moselle interconnector would be a first, one French energy ministry said. \u201cGermany needs our gas and we need power from the rest of Europe, notably Germany,\u201d Macron told a news conference after a phone call on Monday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. French and German technocrats were working to overcome small technical matters and regulatory issues related to ordorants, a French energy ministry official said. France adds odorants to gas before it is piped across the country, while Germany does not. \u201cIt will happen,\u201d the energy official said of the pipeline reactivation.<br \/>\nNEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Broadcasting News Corporation : France is reactivating a disused pipeline in its northeastern Moselle administrative department, originally built for east-to-west flows, to send Germany gas under an energy deal unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron, according to French officials. France will be able to deliver 130 gigawatt hours (GWh) per day, a tiny fraction of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}