<story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stuaxo</author><text>Amazing the UK exporting energy to France when it is in the state it is.&lt;p&gt;Similarly; during the potato famine Britain exported much of Irelands food crops.&lt;p&gt;Now, the UK is doing this to it&amp;#x27;s own population, much of it&amp;#x27;s Oil and Gas from the North see is being exported.&lt;p&gt;Ordinary people are getting hit with what will be some of the biggest prices rises in Europe, but the people who have been in charge for 12 years don&amp;#x27;t care.&lt;p&gt;The new prime minister says she will fix this, but she was a minister for 8 years in this government, and her solution is to keep all the energy company profits, and give people a stopgap that will be added onto their bills for the next 10 years.</text></item><item><author>seren</author><text>EDF was a net electricity exporter, until 2022, but this year France is already importing quite a lot of electricity currently, due to most nuclear reactors being still in maintenance. They are supposed to be restarted before winter but I would not bet on it&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rte-france.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;eco2mix&amp;#x2F;cross-border-electricity-trading&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rte-france.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;eco2mix&amp;#x2F;cross-border-electrici...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>From what I recall the last time I was there is that they tune it down quite a bit in winter anyway because of electricity that is needed else where in France.&lt;p&gt;Also from my understanding most of the electricity that is generated for CERN is by nuclear power plants and since so many of those are currently under maintenance they may need the power they do have to supply export agreements etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjmunro</author><text>Right now, the UK is exporting energy to France because we are receiving Liquified Natural Gas at our Gas terminals and have nowhere to store it and can&amp;#x27;t send it over pipelines to Europe fast enough, so our only option is to burn it for electricity and sell that.&lt;p&gt;Once other EU LNG terminals come online, and as the UK needs more energy itself over winter, it stop exporting. Hopefully some more UK gas storage will come on line in the next few weeks as well, but probably not enough to make a significant difference to this winter&amp;#x27;s outlook: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2022-08-31&amp;#x2F;centrica-moves-closer-to-restoring-key-uk-gas-reserve-for-winter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2022-08-31&amp;#x2F;centrica-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stuaxo</author><text>Amazing the UK exporting energy to France when it is in the state it is.&lt;p&gt;Similarly; during the potato famine Britain exported much of Irelands food crops.&lt;p&gt;Now, the UK is doing this to it&amp;#x27;s own population, much of it&amp;#x27;s Oil and Gas from the North see is being exported.&lt;p&gt;Ordinary people are getting hit with what will be some of the biggest prices rises in Europe, but the people who have been in charge for 12 years don&amp;#x27;t care.&lt;p&gt;The new prime minister says she will fix this, but she was a minister for 8 years in this government, and her solution is to keep all the energy company profits, and give people a stopgap that will be added onto their bills for the next 10 years.</text></item><item><author>seren</author><text>EDF was a net electricity exporter, until 2022, but this year France is already importing quite a lot of electricity currently, due to most nuclear reactors being still in maintenance. They are supposed to be restarted before winter but I would not bet on it&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rte-france.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;eco2mix&amp;#x2F;cross-border-electricity-trading&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rte-france.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;eco2mix&amp;#x2F;cross-border-electrici...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>From what I recall the last time I was there is that they tune it down quite a bit in winter anyway because of electricity that is needed else where in France.&lt;p&gt;Also from my understanding most of the electricity that is generated for CERN is by nuclear power plants and since so many of those are currently under maintenance they may need the power they do have to supply export agreements etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>Usually that is due to existing contract agreements and futures. Which was agreed on by all parties involved.&lt;p&gt;In the Netherlands we&amp;#x27;re also getting questions about why we&amp;#x27;re exporting so much gas we need ourselves. Well that&amp;#x27;s why. We&amp;#x27;ve already sold it, it just hasn&amp;#x27;t been delivered yet.</text></comment>