The Energy Department's minister hadn't noticed the despair on Masumi Aoki's face but continued, "Although the Middle East has halted their natural gas supply to us, our other suppliers can still provide a small amount of natural gas."
"While other energy sources can replace natural gas, some countries' energy facilities must be powered by a natural gas network. For this part of the supply, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to spare any for civil power generation, commercial power generation, and industrial power generation."
"Minister, do you mean we need to increase the proportion of coal-fired power generation?" a coal power merchant asked.
There was a hint of joy on his face; if the nation was going to increase the proportion of coal power, it naturally meant that money would be poured into this area. That indicated that these state-owned coal power enterprises would receive a large sum of funds, and there were substantial interests to be excavated.
