Ministers agree to extend gas saving policy through 2024
European energy ministers have agreed to extend for a second year voluntary measures to keep natural gas demand across to at least 15% below where they stood when Russia supplied some two-fifths of the bloc’s needs, while the EU executive said the bloc is ready to stop ongoing imports through war-torn Ukraine. Belgian energy minister Tinne Van der Straeten – who chaired an EU Council summit in Brussels on Monday (4 March) that included a discussion of ensuring reserves are filled in time for the next winter – said the emergency measures had “clearly worked” with gas demand across the 27-member...