{"id":509772,"date":"2022-07-28T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=509772"},"modified":"2022-07-28T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:07:14","slug":"uk-grid-warns-energy-costs-could-skyrocket-amid-russia-gas-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-grid-warns-energy-costs-could-skyrocket-amid-russia-gas-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"UK grid warns energy costs could skyrocket amid Russia gas curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain faces \u201cknock-on impacts\u201d for the country\u2019s energy supplies such as rocketing prices if Russia cuts off natural gas flows to Europe, according to National Grid Plc.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 6% of the UK\u2019s gas imports come from Russia, a statistic the government has so far used to play down the risks of reduced flows to the UK energy system. The grid operator\u2019s warning is the first time it has openly addressed the threat of Moscow\u2019s decision to throttle fuel supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that the cessation of flows of gas into Europe could have knock-on impacts, including very high prices,\u201d National Grid said Thursday in its early outlook for winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain faces \u201cknock-on impacts\u201d for the country\u2019s energy supplies such as rocketing prices if Russia cuts off natural gas flows to Europe, according to National Grid Plc. Only about 6% of the UK\u2019s gas imports come from Russia, a statistic the government has so far used to play down the risks of reduced flows to the UK energy system. The grid operator\u2019s warning is the first time it has openly addressed the threat of Moscow\u2019s decision to throttle fuel supplies. \u201cIt is clear that the cessation of flows of gas into Europe could have knock-on impacts, including very high prices,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}