Germany has stockpiled enough gas to make it through the winter even without further mitigation measures.
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That is not what my linked source says: "So far this year, “Household & Business” has on average used 13% less gas than an average year, while “Industry” customers are down 12.4% from the norm."
Then that source is wrong: https://www-faz-net.translate.goog/aktuell/wirtschaft/gasverbrauch-steigt-zu-stark-laut-bundesnetzagentur-18366730.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Household & Business are up 10%. Industry is only down 2%. Combine both and we're up like what? 6-ish% (industry uses more gas in total)?
Edit: Maybe those numbers were correct during the hot summer but we went straight from mid-summer to cold-and-wet autumn, skipping over a warm late-summer. People had to start heating earlier than usual.
He tells me one thing, she tells me another. Seven hells, what am I to make of this?
You can't use 1 week of usually cold weather to prove a trend. September 28 in Germany has an average historical high of 63 degrees, and last week it was only 50 degrees. Huge difference. So of course gas usage temporarily went up.
The source I linked is using the broader data from this year, not looking at 1 week and pretending that that week is representative when your link openly says it is not.
Also temperatures returned to historical averages after a few days, so there is no proof that cold weather is here to stay.