UK comes within 6 hours of having no gas: FT

In March the UK was a mere six hours away from being out of natural gas, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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“We really only had six hours’ worth of gas left in storage as a buffer,” said Rob Hastings, director of energy and infrastructure at the Crown Estate, the property portfolio managed on behalf of the Queen. “If it had run any lower it would have meant…interruptions to supply.”

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