Germans urged to turn down heating – Bloomberg

Germany’s BNetzA gas-network regulator has asked households and companies to reduce heating as the nation tries to conserve supplies during the energy crisis, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

The report highlighted that industrial gas consumption in the country declined by 12% in the week through last Sunday while household and commercial consumption dropped by 13%.

The regulator previously said that Germany needs to slash gas consumption by at least 20% to help offset the loss of supplies from Russia.

Citizens should “perhaps not turn the heating up all the way and think carefully about which rooms need to be heated,” BNetzA President Klaus Mueller told public broadcaster ARD on Friday.

“Yesterday’s numbers weren’t so great,” Mueller said, adding that “if it was merely a weekly blip then we can forget about it.” He promised to “observe what happens in the next few days” but cautioned that “we shouldn’t treat this lightly.”

According to Mueller, Germany is…