This is a better situation than the reverse. It’s fortunate the winter has been mild so far. Will be interesting if the LNG industry can keep pace and replace Russia for good.
"Winter so far has been mild" is not a confusion on their part that it won't get any colder, just a misstatement. Autumn has been unseasonably warm, and the difference in parts of Europe between the two isn't as severe as here in the US.
(though I might not be impacted as hard later also as the city is producing biogas and is using PtH).
At least the energy crisis has been averted for the first month of the autumn season in Europe and the outlook looks promising going into the second month esp for households in light of rising costs and soaring inflation.
Yeah, sorry.
March, April, May = Spring
June, July, August = Summer
September, October, November = Autumn/Fall
December, January, February = Winter
No Winter has started this year yet, we have one more month of Autumn/Fall.
That depends on which definition you're using. The astronomical winter runs until 21 March (and doesn't start until 22 December). Seasons in general are just a somewhat ill-defined concept, as weather doesn't particularly care about human constructs.
But the main impact will be to poorer countries which until now might have been depending on LNG while "rich" Europe is buying up everything.
Nobody can replace Russia and their resources in the long-term.
It seems clear that what we’re doing right now can sustain things until spring. If we’re willing to pay to do it again next year, and the year after that… at some point it’s going to be financially viable to change the makeup of both energy sources and how it’s consumed.
Last spring - which is why heat pumps became very popular in Europe over summer. Things will change even more in the future, though I'm not sure how much.
Once cheap hydrolysers scale production, a huge chunk of the market will start to disappear due to ammonia production switching over.