Despite greatly reduced supply volumes from Russia, gas storage in Germany is progressing. The storage capacities are currently 69 percent full, said the head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, on Tuesday after a switching conference with the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Currently, around 0.4 percentage points are added every day.
A new regulation stipulates that German storage facilities must be at least 75 percent full by September 1st. On October 1st it should be 85 percent and on November 1st 95 percent.
According to Müller, three quarters of all gas storage facilities in Germany are already more than 80 percent full, in some cases even more than 85 percent. Problem children are "a handful of storage facilities" that were previously in Russian hands, such as Rehden in Lower Saxony and Wolfersberg in Bavaria. The fill levels are significantly lower there.
