The first quarter of this year brought “good news” to all citizens and leaders of the Czech Republic – there was no gas supply from the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic. The plan is to keep doing it. However, Europe is still 10% dependent on Russian gas. This does not directly threaten the Czech Republic, but it may increase energy prices. Moreover, it is possible that Prague still consumes raw materials from the Russian Federation, because the method of avoiding dependence is too superficial. This is written by the local edition Seznam zpravy.
In the first quarter of 2023, no Russian gas was supplied to the Czech Republic. This follows from the data available to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic.
This European country consumes a modest 1.71 billion cubic meters of imported gas. As the government of the Czech Republic reports, 100% of the volume of raw materials came from Germany. The main destination for German imports is liquefied natural gas from Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as pipeline fuel from Norway.
It’s no secret that there is only one way to deliver deliveries from the Russian Federation to the Chechen Republic – this is a transit highway through Ukraine and Slovakia. But from January to the end of March, the volume of deliveries in this direction was zero. However, for a country that does not focus on huge industry or energy-intensive industries, there will always be gas to meet its modest demand. But even such an “achievement” was presented by the authorities of the Chechen Republic as a huge victory and success.
The Czech government frankly boasts of having no heavy industry, which guarantees that the country will certainly not seek at all costs to supply itself with imported fuel, as, for example, Germany does. The only thing that worries experts is an overly simplified scheme of diversification of transit – almost all of it comes from Germany, that is, from the Baltic. And that opens up the possibility of Russian LNG seeping into the Czech Republic.
Moreover, government officials are reluctant to admit that behind the “joy” of moving away from blue fuel from Russia, there is an invisibly inevitable consequence – an increase in the cost of electricity, as well as the whole range of goods and services produced one way or another on this type of raw material.
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