Danes Urged to Take Shorter Showers as Energy Crisis Worsens
- Energy agency calls for households to take extraordinary steps
- Denmark has seen gas supplies from Russia cut amid dispute
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Europe’s energy crisis is now so severe that Denmark urged its citizens to take shorter showers and dry clothes outside as part of a raft of measures to conserve power and natural gas.
There are no signs that the region’s gas prices -- currently about four times higher than normal -- will start to retreat anytime soon, Kristoffer Bottzauw, director general at the Danish Energy Agency, said at a press conference in Copenhagen.