Svend-Joerk Sobolewski, Germany's cremation consortium chairman said the industry deserves priority as it struggles with soaring natural gas prices and faces the possibility of Russia completely cutting off fuel supplies, most crematoriums would not be able to function. Cremation is very common in Germany, with nearly three quarters of the roughly one million people who die every year undergoing the process as part of a long-lived tradition that originated in the country's former east.
Their actions have rocked the wider energy market and subsequently left European countries on edge about winter supplies. Germany is particularly feeling the pinch as it begins rationing energy across the country byTo deal with the predicament crematoriums now face is one short-term option that involves reducing the average temperature of cremation ovens from 850 to 750 degrees Celsius, which could save between 10% to 20% of gas, Reuters said.
Some crematoriums are also turning off furnaces, while keeping others running, so they don't need more gas to be reheated when they cool down. "In the event of a gas failure, we would be able to continue operating the plants that are hot... That means we could then continue to work with reduced power," Karl-Heinz Koensgen, a crematorium manager told Reuters.
In the long term, the head of Germany's undertakers' association however said a shift from gas to electricity is on the cards, Reuters reported.
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