{"id":462342,"date":"2026-08-13T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/13\/caldo-lue-forniture-di-energia-stabili-non-ce-motivo-di-preoccuparsi\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:27:25","slug":"heatwave-eu-says-energy-supplies-are-stable-there-is-no-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/heatwave-eu-says-energy-supplies-are-stable-there-is-no-cause-for-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave: EU says, \u201cEnergy supplies are stable; there is no cause for concern\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 &#8220;<strong>There is no cause for concern; energy supplies are stable<\/strong>&#8220;. The European Commission, through its spokesperson <strong>Eva Hrncirova<\/strong>, has sought to allay fears of a blackout caused by the shutdown of nuclear and power stations due to extreme summer weather. \u201cThe situation Europe is currently facing is weather-related,\u201d namely heatwaves and droughts and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/04\/danube-running-dry-posing-nuclear-risks-eu-ready-to-convene-energy-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low river levels <\/a>that result from them, acknowledges the spokesperson, who points out that the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparency\/expert-groups-register\/screen\/expert-groups\/consult?lang=en&amp;do=groupDetail.groupDetail&amp;groupID=2735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electricity Coordination Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p> had already met on Tuesday (11 August) and that the conclusion reached at that meeting was that the situation is such that there is no cause for concern.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In any case, \u201cthe Commission is monitoring the situation closely,\u201d the spokesperson assured during the regular press briefing. \u201cWe remain vigilant,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission spokesperson reassures the public over the shutdown of power stations due to extreme summer weather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":462328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30800,25774],"tags":[26950,33392,29736,33394],"class_list":["post-462342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-in-brief","tag-drought-en","tag-energia","tag-broth-en","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462343,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462342\/revisions\/462343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}