{"id":66608,"date":"2025-10-08T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:56:11","slug":"germany-risks-e40-billion-hit-on-lower-than-usual-gas-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66608\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Risks \u20ac40 Billion Hit on Lower-Than-Usual Gas Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Germany\u2019s economy could suffer losses of as much as \u20ac40 billion ($46.4 billion) if this winter is exceptionally cold and natural gas stockpiles are too low, according to a study commissioned by energy company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/UN0:GR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Uniper SE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The analysis found that a severe cold spell in early 2026 \u2014 with temperatures falling 2.2C (4F) below historic norms, as they did in 2010 \u2014 could cause that level of economic damage if gas storage sites in northwest Europe are only 75% full. At nearly 83% full, inventories are currently lower-than-usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s economy could suffer losses of as much as \u20ac40 billion ($46.4 billion) if this winter is exceptionally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,19983,1951,219,2024,246,53753,1223,648,220,53755,111,139,69,643,53754],"class_list":{"0":"post-66608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-chief-executive-officer","10":"tag-economics","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-generic-1st-ng-future","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-industries","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-michael-d-lewis","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-stocks","23":"tag-uniper-se"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}