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Ukraine Live Updates: Countries Across Europe Prepare for Winter Energy Squeeze
A power plant run by CEZ Group in Chorzow, Poland, in February.Credit…Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times In eastern France, a dozen villages have been shutting off their streetlights at midnight. Barcelona is offering home efficiency assessments. Warsaw is subsidizing homes that replace fossil-burning stoves with heat pumps. With the war in Ukraine spurring…
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Germans Tip-Toe Up the Path to Energy Savings
AUGSBURG, Germany — Wolfgang Hübschle went into city government expecting a simple life, planning things like traditional festivals replete with lederhosen. Instead, these days he has the unpopular task of calculating which traffic lights to shut off, how to lower temperatures in offices and swimming pools — and perhaps, if it comes to it, pulling…