Russia has also announced that it will stop gas deliveries before Monday, the climate ministry said. On Sunday, only about half of the originally announced amount had come to Austria. However, the household warehouses are also full. The storage level is now 41.32 percent or 39.46 terawatt hours. According to OMV and E-Control, the current gas supply is guaranteed.
Deliveries through Nord Stream are affected: “Despite reduced gas flows through Nord Stream, imports into Baumgarten in the Eastern market area are stable. The storage tanks are being filled again today,” says AGGM, the management of the domestic gas network. The supply to the end customers can be fully covered by imports. The price is more than 120 euros per MWh.
Level of early warning declared and hopes for full winter storage
“Since the invasion of Ukraine, it is clear that Russia is no longer a reliable counterpart,” Climate Protection and Energy Minister Leonore Gewessler said in her written statement on Saturday. That is why the early warning level of the Austrian gas emergency plan was announced a few weeks ago.
Since then, the Ministry of Climate Protection, the responsible body E-Control and the domestic gas infrastructure manager AGGM “have been in daily contact with all market players and international partners to monitor the delivery quantities, the gas quantities available on the market and the price. daily developments”.
Emergency plan for gas
The next level in the gas emergency plan would be the so-called alarm level, the ministry said. This provides a call to industry to conserve gas and replace it with other energy sources. “The decisive criterion is the progress in the memory construction. We want to go into the winter with storage tanks that are 80 percent full. Then we are well prepared. If this goal is compromised, we will take action,” Gewessler said.
Source: Krone
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