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The next two European winters (2022-23 and 2023-24) will be extremely difficult because of the Russian energy cutoff and the multi-year transition off Russian gas.

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Missenergy

the winters for the next two years for in Europe are going to be insanely difficult

The next two European winters (2022-23 and 2023-24) will be extremely difficult because of the Russian energy cutoff and the multi-year transition off Russian gas.

Made on
2022-09-02
Outcome
Miss
Importance
5 / 5
Effect on score
-2.22

What counted as right

Status
resolved
Settled on
2024-03-31

Across winters 2022-23 and 2023-24 (by 2024-03-31), Europe endures severe, sustained energy-driven hardship (rationing, crisis-level prices, or major economic disruption) attributable to the Russian energy cutoff.

Criterion required severe, sustained energy-driven hardship (rationing, crisis-level prices, or major economic disruption) across BOTH winters by 2024-03-31. Both winters passed without rationing, with full storage and steadily falling prices. Authoritative sources (IEA, Bruegel). No outcome value assigned (later stage).

Sources

  • Mohamed El-Erian Is Predicting an Even Bigger Crash

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    Source

Evidence of what happened

  • Winter 2022-23: IEA documents Europe avoided rationing/blackouts; record demand fall and rapidly declining prices — no sustained severe hardship attributable to the Russian cutoff.

    Evidence

  • Winter 2023-24: Bruegel — the EU entered the 2023-24 gas season well-prepared, hitting its 90% storage target ~two months ahead of the November deadline, with structurally lower demand and expanded LNG import capacity; the winter 'de-risked' and no supply emergency or rationing materialised.

    Evidence

  • TTF gas prices normalised further into early 2024 (roughly €25-30/MWh, a fraction of the 2022 peak of ~€340/MWh), reflecting full storage and weak demand rather than crisis conditions.

    Evidence

Corrections

  • Date: Verbatim is spoken in 8yxHdeuxVXo (upload_date 2022-09-02), not the cited T6et1Rce0FU (2022-09-05) where the words do not occur.

Effect on the score

-2.22
How sure they sounded
85%
Outcome
Miss
Importance
5 / 5

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Where this came from

The next two European winters (2022-23 and 2023-24) will be…
Methodology version
v1.0.0
Last computed
August 2, 2026
Made on
2022-09-02

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