High gas prices, however, have led to higher costs for home heating fuel and cutbacks by heavy industrial users.

然而，高昂的天然气价格导致家庭取暖燃料成本上升，重工业用户也削减了使用量。

Elsewhere steelmakers and other metal-bashers, Germany's second-biggest industrial users of gas after chemicals firms, would grind to a halt.

在其他地方， 钢铁制造商和其他金属制造商— — 德国仅次于化工公司的第二大天然气工业用户—— 将逐渐停滞。

To secure the other important input, hydrogen, h2gs has teamed up with Iberdrola, a Spanish energy firm, to build a large factory in western Europe to produce the gas, with a view to supplying some of it to other industrial users.

为确保氢气这一其他重要原料的安全， h2gs 与西班牙能源公司 Iberdrola 合作，在西欧建造了一家大型工厂来生产氢气， 以期将其中的一部分供应给其他工业用户。