MNICH (dpa-AFX) – The Bavarian Economics and Energy Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Freie Whler) calls on the federal government to announce the last escalation level of the gas emergency plan. “The principle of hope is no longer sufficient, we now need the emergency level of the Energy Security Act,” said Aiwanger, according to a statement from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs on Monday evening. “That would give the federal government significantly more opportunities to intervene politically in the critical supply situation.”
The gas emergency plan, which has three stages, provides for the eventuality of a Russian gas delivery stop. The first, the early warning level, has already been declared by the federal government. In the last, the emergency level, the state would have to intervene. It would then be possible to switch off industrial customers. Private households, on the other hand, are protected./jux/DP/mis