Status: 10/31/2022 3:32 p.m
The German gas storage facilities are almost full: they are 98.52 percent full. A regulation stipulates that by November 1st every storage facility in Germany should be at least 95 percent full.
The German gas storage facilities are 98.52 percent full. “Since Monday last week, the absolute storage levels in Germany have been at a record level,” said the managing director of the German storage association Ines, Sebastian Bleschke, the German Press Agency. “Against the background of the gas reserves thus created, it can be stated that very good provisions have been made for the coming winter.”
High filling levels are of central importance in order to achieve independence from individual gas suppliers. “We have now come a big step closer to this independence.” A regulation stipulates that by November 1st every storage facility in Germany should be at least 95 percent full.
The Ines Association continues to assume that only the largest German storage facility in Rehden in Lower Saxony will not reach this value by the reporting date. It was last filled to 91.4 percent.
According to the storage association GIE, the filling level of all storage facilities in Europe was 94.34 percent on Saturday.
According to data from the European gas storage operators, the absolute amount stored in Germany on October 24, at 239.64 terawatt hours, exceeded the previous maximum value of November 10, 2019, when 239.62 terawatt hours of energy content were registered. The value has now risen to 241.62 terawatt hours (provisional as of October 29).
For comparison: In January and February 2022, according to the Federal Network Agency, a total of almost 227 terawatt hours of natural gas were consumed in Germany.