Lubmin (dpa/mv) - Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) will visit the Western Pomeranian energy location Lubmin next Monday. The Schwerin State Chancellery announced on Thursday that the meeting would deal, among other things, with federal plans for landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) there.
The energy group RWE and the Norwegian company Stena-Power want to expand the site for LNG handling. Most recently, it was said that the terminal should be ready for use by the end of 2023. The company Deutsche Regas is planning another project to land LNG in Lubmin in December this year. In its efforts to become less dependent on Russian gas, the German government is relying on LNG, among other things.
According to the Schwerin State Chancellery, the pipeline infrastructure in Lubmin for nationwide gas distribution will also be discussed on Monday. Several gas pipelines meet in Lubmin. In the past, mainly Russian gas from the Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 1 was landed here and then forwarded to other parts of Germany and Europe. Russia has now stopped supplying the line. A good two weeks ago, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) visited Lubmin together with Schwesig.
