EU Energy Ministers to Discuss Soaring Fuel Prices
Ministers will weigh refinery output boosts and tax reforms as EU gas storage sits at 75% and prices remain near 100 euro per MWh.
- 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 European Commission "does not expect" an energy supply problem this winter, but "for citizens who have difficulty paying their bills, that may not matter", acknowledged European Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen, who has asked governments to take "temporary" and "specific" measures in the face of the crisis.
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