{"id":532045,"date":"2022-10-27T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=532045"},"modified":"2022-10-27T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T04:28:31","slug":"gas-crunch-eases-in-europe-but-the-respite-might-not-last-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gas-crunch-eases-in-europe-but-the-respite-might-not-last-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas crunch eases in Europe &#8211; but the respite might not last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural gas and electricity prices in Europe have plunged from summer peaks thanks to mild weather and a monthslong scramble to fill gas storage ahead of winter and replace Russian supplies during the war in Ukraine. It&#8217;s a welcome respite after Russia slashed natural gas flows, triggering an energy crisis that has fuelled record inflation and a looming recession. <\/p>\n<p>Yet experts warn it&#8217;s too soon to exhale, even as European governments roll out relief packages for people struggling with high utility bills and work on longer-term ways to contain volatile gas and electricity prices that have shrunk household budgets and forced some businesses to shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural gas and electricity prices in Europe have plunged from summer peaks thanks to mild weather and a monthslong scramble to fill gas storage ahead of winter and replace Russian supplies during the war in Ukraine. It&#8217;s a welcome respite after Russia slashed natural gas flows, triggering an energy crisis that has fuelled record inflation and a looming recession. Yet experts warn it&#8217;s too soon to exhale, even as European governments roll out relief packages for people struggling with high utility bills and work on longer-term ways to contain volatile gas and electricity prices that have shrunk household budgets and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532045","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}