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Some European countries are planning to implement price limit strategies for natural gas exported to Russia. The previous European Commission meeting officially launched a price limit proposal, requiring the future EU import price limit of natural gas is 275 euros per megawatt.
At the same time, the European Commission has sent this price limit document to all member states. As long as it is approved, the controversial decree will be officially implemented at the beginning of next year, but not all EU countries are willing to accept the natural gas price limit decree.
The energy storage volume of European countries has reached its limit, and a larger crisis will inevitably occur next year
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, European countries have begun to reduce their energy imports to Russia, but this has also put considerable pressure on their energy supply. After 9 months of consumption, the energy storage of many European countries has bottomed out.
And winter itself is a period of high incidence of energy use. Although European countries have thought of many ways, such as importing natural gas from the international market at high prices to meet their own needs, this cannot fundamentally solve the problem.
Some analysts even believe that once the natural gas stored in European countries is used up, a larger-scale comprehensive energy crisis will break out next year, which will make the so-called natural gas price limit order they promote meaningless, because they believe that the price of natural gas may exceed 300 euros per megawatt by then.
To a certain extent, the EU's natural gas price limit order is indeed a good idea. As long as natural gas can be imported within the benchmark range, it will play a positive role in stabilizing Europe's energy supply. But the problem is that Europe itself does not occupy the trade initiative for natural gas exports, so the ban they promoted will not have any effect on itself, and it will not be able to obtain widespread support within the EU.
There are many differences within the EU. 15 member states have expressed opposition to
According to the news released by the Italian Minister of Energy Security, after the European Commission issued a price limit order to them, they contacted and communicated with many EU member states and found that 15 of the existing 27 member states have expressed opposition to the price limit bill drafted by the European Commission, and Italy will not sign the plan.
And countries that oppose this bill include Germany, Netherlands, because they are relatively dependent on Russia on energy. They know that the EU rashly launches a price limit law to Russia's natural gas exports, which may have a negative effect and will make them unable to buy even the only remaining natural gas.
Some experts believe that the price limit bill drafted by the European Commission has obviously been influenced by political influence from certain extraterritorial forces, because this is equivalent to a complete embargo on natural gas from Russia. So if we completely lose energy imports to Russia, where should Europe obtain enough energy to ensure domestic supply in the future? I'm afraid that the officials of the European Commission will not be able to answer this fatal question.
