Switzerland is preparing for a shortage of electricity and gas due to the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, possible interruptions in the supply of gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 21. July . 2022 | Economy .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Michael Frank, director of the association of Swiss electricity companies VSE, said that Switzerland plans to introduce increasingly strict energy-saving measures if necessary,” the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It said the government would first ask for voluntary savings measures – a public awareness campaign is due to take place next month – then it could limit secondary uses such as shop window lighting, use of mobile heaters or night lighting, a briefing in Bern said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, in an extreme scenario, the government could order approximately 30,000 companies to save up to 30% of their energy consumption. It is estimated that these first three phases can reduce electricity demand by 25-30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In extreme cases, Bern can turn off part of the power grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Switzerland could resort to continuous four-hour blackouts in regions if Europe’s energy crisis leads to winter power shortages, a senior utility official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Addition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The EU plans to\u00a0cut\u00a0gas consumption by 15% by next spring, due to fears that Russia may stop supplying the blue fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source<\/strong>:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Switzerland is preparing for a shortage of electricity and gas due to the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, possible interruptions in the supply of gas.\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 21. July . 2022 | Economy .\u00a0 Quote “Michael Frank, director of the association of Swiss electricity companies VSE, said that Switzerland plans to introduce increasingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[349,443,842,2399,1000,1024,1064],"class_list":["post-42928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-economy","tag-gas","tag-shortage","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42953,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42928\/revisions\/42953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}