No Guarantees Swiss Will Always Have Enough Gas, Minister Says

Tanks containing natural gas are seen at a storage facility of Erdgas Ostschweiz AG company in Schlieren, Switzerland, on March 5, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

ZURICH— Swiss businesses would be first to have energy rationed in the event of supply shortages, Energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga told the SonntagsZeitung, warning that the government cannot guarantee there will always be enough gas to go around.

Landlocked Switzerland gets its gas via trading hubs in neighboring countries in the European Union, so disruptions there would also affect Switzerland.