A total of five gas reservoirs are located deep underground in the Flachgau Straßwalchen. Only one also has a connection to Austria and is part of the Salzburg AG supply. That should now change. Because the federal government wants to quickly make use of the gas storage in Haidach, which is important for the supply of Bavaria – is there now a gas dispute with the neighboring country?
“We have decided that all gas storage facilities on Austrian territory should be connected to our network,” Leonore Gewessler (Greens), Austria’s minister of climate protection and energy, told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (Monday issue). This decision is legally binding, the minister continued.
This storage was previously only connected to the German gas network and mainly supplied the Bavarian households and industrial companies with gas. Haidach is one of the largest underground natural gas storage facilities in Europe. It expects that the first connection to the domestic gas network in Haidach will take place this year. “The storage tanks are our central safety buffer for the winter,” emphasizes Gewessler. They are currently 50 percent full, she added.
Source: Krone
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