EU Energy Ministers to Discuss Soaring Fuel Prices
Ministers will weigh refinery output and bill cuts as gas prices hit 100 euro per MWh and storage falls to 75%, officials said.
- Energy ministers convened in Brussels on Thursday to address security ahead of the winter heating season, as conflicts in Iran, Ukraine, and Yemen drive oil and natural gas prices to triple pre-Iran war levels.
- Fighting has damaged refineries across the Middle East and Russia, hampering energy flows through vital shipping lanes in the Black Sea, Red Sea, and Strait of Hormuz.
- Europe enters the winter heating season with storage at only 75% capacity, down from 83% a year ago, while wholesale gas prices briefly touched €100/MWh on Wednesday for the first time since December 2022.
- The Commission began talks with European refineries yesterday to boost output through technical specification adjustments, while proposing tax and grid fee reforms to lower electricity bills.
- Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen warned Europe faces a "very serious situation," as Western powers agreed this month to accelerate the release of over 400 million barrels of emergency oil stocks.
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The energy ministers of EU member states are meeting today to discuss how to tackle a worsening energy price crisis as winter approaches, and with it, peak heating demand season. The meeting follows reports from Wednesday citing Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen as saying a series of refinery closures in EU member states over the past 20 years was a mistake as the diesel squeeze pushes prices to all-time highs. Natural gas prices in the EU, mean…
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