Electricity Blackouts Could Hit Europe, Experts Warn

Electricity Blackouts Could Hit Europe, Experts Warn
A view of pipelines at the Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske underground gas storage facility, the largest in Europe, not far from the village of Bilche village, in the Lviv region of western Ukraine, on May 21, 2014. ALEXANDER ZOBIN/AFP via Getty Images
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Europe could be hit by electricity blackouts in the next few months if average temperatures fall, energy experts have warned.

Analysts at investment bank Goldman Sachs said that Europe has enough gas stored up to get through winter, but if temperatures were to drop, leading to an increase in demand, storage could fall below the record lows seen in 2018.