Saving gas: Network agency wants to go b • Table.Briefings

A dispute has broken out among member states over mandatory energy-saving targets following the Commission’s presentation of its winter plan. Germany, on the other hand, should save more to be able to support its neighbors, according to authority head Klaus Müller.

The headwind was to be expected. Shortly after the EU Commission proposed a flat energy savings target of 15 percent in its winter plan on Wednesday, individual states also publicly voiced their rejection. The government of Portugal could not accept the proposal at all because it was unsustainable, according to João Galamba, the state secretary for the environment and energy, in a newspaper interview yesterday. „We consume gas out of absolute necessity.“

Saving gas: Network agency wants to go beyond EU target

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