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You might say "any country relying on international pipelines for gas would need to build and maintain full local backup capacity", except they didn't. Hence th

• adrianN 1y ago
  To be fair, many countries have several months worth of gas reserves.
• supplied_demand 1y ago
  ==the Russia/Ukraine war causing all sorts of problems.== Problems, yes. Catastrophes, no. It's not clear that they "needed" full backup capacity.
• m4rtink 1y ago
  Most states have sizeable underground gas storages, often reusing old oil and gas fields. The capacity being from weeks to months of normal use, possibly much longer with some rationing. This mostly turned out to be sufficient to enable a quick switch to LNG and other sources.
• megaman821 1y ago
  "Full capacity" backup looks different when you have sufficient batteries on the grid. Building enough backup generation to hit peak capacity would entail a lot more gas plants than building enough to hit average capacity and using batteries to supply the peaks.