Germany reaches October gas storage goal of 85% despite prolonged Nord Stream 1 halt – National

GermanyGas storage facilities on Friday met their 85% target for October despite a lengthy shutdown of the main gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, industry data from the group of European operators GIE showed on Saturday.

Reserve levels are already at 85.02%, suggesting that companies and citizens in Europe’s largest economy are heeding the government’s call to save gas to get through the winter. the context of Russian gas imports decreased.

In July, the government announced new energy-saving measures and tightened gas reserve targets, concerned that Russia’s persistently low gas supplies could lead to shortages in the gas sector. winter.

Last week, Siegfried Russwurm, head of the German industry association BDI, said gas consumption in the industry fell 21% in July last year but warned that the drop was not a good sign. .

“The reason for this is usually not an increase in efficiency, but a drastic drop in production. It was not a success, but an expression of a big problem,” said Russwurm.

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Germany’s new achievable storage target comes as Russia pushed back the deadline for the resumption of flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, saying it had discovered a fault during maintenance.

(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)