Worried about the lack of natural gas, the Netherlands temporarily canceled the restrictions on coal -fired power generation

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 22, the Dutch government announced on the 20th that in order to cope with the risk of natural gas shortage, it will temporarily cancel the restrictions on coal -fired power generation until 2024.

The Dutch Climate and Energy Minister Robe Jentten said in a statement that given the risk of natural gas shortage, the government decided to lift the restrictions on coal -fired power generation from 2022 to 2024. Get allowed to run at full load. "

According to Germany, for environmental factors, the Netherlands had previously controlled 35%of the total electricity of coal power. The Dutch government said that certain measures will be taken in other fields to neutralize the increase in carbon dioxide emissions due to increasing coal -fired power generation.

The Dutch government hopes to save the amount of natural gas by increasing coal -fired power generation in order to reserve more natural gas for winter heating. Yetten urged enterprises and the public to save energy: "From now on, natural gas every cubic meter must be carefully calculated, even in summer, it must be saved as much as possible."

Starting from April 1 this year, Russia switched to the "unfriendly" countries and regions to settle in rubles. Including the Netherlands, some energy companies such as Poland and Finland have been interrupted by Russia for refusing to abide by the "ruble settlement order".

According to Germany, 15%of the Dutch natural gas supply comes from Russia. According to Yetten, there is no natural gas shortage in the Netherlands for the time being. (Liu Jiang)

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