Agnès Pannier-Runacher: “We could do without Russian gas” – BFM Business

The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, assured Thursday evening that France could “do without Russian gas”. The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, assured Thursday evening on BFM Business that France could to “do without Russian gas”. “In absolute terms, and as we benefit from liquefied natural gas, we could do without Russian gas”, but “this assumes that all LNG carriers arrive on time and that we can comfortably fill our strategic storage, that what passes through Spain today works,” said Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who adds that this also relies on deliveries arriving from Norway and Algeria. Waiting for winter , the use of gas “simply depends on the weather next winter”, added the Minister, stressing that a very cold winter would force France to consume more of it. There are “a lot of question marks, which means that we take the maximum measures immediately, in anticipation”, to avoid taking measures such as erasing, that is to say asking companies to use less gas. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, had announced earlier in the day that France would fill its gas storages to almost 100% by the beginning of autumn and that a new floating LNG terminal would be built to be connected in 2023.