中国石化新闻网讯 据法新社12月20日报道，欧盟统计机构周二表示，为了适应能源短缺，欧盟国家在过去4个月里把天然气消费量削减了20%。
总的来说，这一数字高于欧盟成员国在8月份签署的自愿减少15%天然气消费量的目标。
这突显出欧盟正在努力降低能源需求，以应对管道天然气供应大幅减少的局面。
欧盟统计机构表示，与2017年至2021年期间的平均天然气消费量相比，芬兰在8月至11月期间的天然气消费量大幅下降了53%。
除两个欧盟国家外，其他所有欧盟国家的天然气消费量都有所下降，主要经济体德国和法国在此期间分别把天然气消费量削减了25%和20%。
在这4个月里，马耳他和斯洛伐克的天然气消费量上升了不到10%。塞浦路斯是唯一的一个不使用天然气的欧盟国家。
欧盟周一就天然气价格上限达成一致，如果天然气价格飙升至8月份达到的历史高位，该价格上限措施将生效。目前欧盟各国都在争先恐后地在冬季到来之前填满天然气储备。
经过几个月的争论，天然气期货合约的价格上限被设定为每兆瓦时180欧元，接近8月份峰值的一半，当时曾达到近340欧元。
李峻 编译自 法新社
原文如下：
EU cuts gas consumption by 20% over past four months
EU countries have cut the amount of natural gas they consume by 20 percent over the past four months as they adapt to an energy crunch, the bloc's statistics agency said Tuesday.
Taken overall, the number was higher than the voluntary 15 percent target the European Union member states had signed>It underlined the bloc's drive to reduce demand for energy as it copes with greatly diminished supplies.
Finland led the dive, with gas consumption down 53 percent between August and November, compared with the average consumption for that period between 2017 and 2021, Eurostat said.
All but two EU countries showed declines, with major economies Germany, France slicing the amount of gas used by 25 percent and 20 percent, respectively, over that period.
Malta and Slovakia showed upticks in gas consumption of less than 10 percent over those four months. Cyprus was the>The EU>After months of wrangling the price cap was set at 180 euros per megawatt hour for futures contracts -- close to half of where it spiked to in August, when it reached nearly 340 euros.