BERLIN - Germany's energy regulator will ask companies about their gas consumption to help determine how to ration suppliesAll companies using more than 10 megawatt hours a year will receive a questionnaire from Bundesnetzagentur, the person said, asking not to be identified
because the information isn't public. As many as 15,000 companies in the industrial heartland of North Rhine Westphalia alone will be asked to provide data.The effort is part of the gas emergency plan triggered by the government on Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin