Energy experts are warning that British industry could be hit by gas shortages this winter as the UK government insists it is “confident” there will be no shortfall.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said it remained “confident energy security will be maintained.”
But one leading commentator, economist Paul Stevens, told The Epoch Times, “Industry and the manufacturing sector are going to be hit as gas shortages start to emerge.”
Another specialist on the natural gas sector spelled out three variables that need to converge if the country is to “get by.”
Equipment used on 12-inch high pressure gas pipeline which runs through the Cheshire countryside in Knutsford, England, on Sept. 21, 2021. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Mild Winter
Jonathan Stern, a professor and distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy listed the criteria he believes need to be met if the UK is to avoid energy rationing: “If it’s a mild winter; if we go into recession (which it looks like we will); and if the Russians keep at least some gas flowing,” Stern said….