“Storage is going very well”

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Joseph Borrellassured this Monday that the gas storage plan for the winter that is marked Brussels goes, “for now, very good, above schedule“, and hopes you can go into winter with a “good” stock level.

The EU plan stipulated that gas reserves should be at 80% by November 1, 2022 and Borrell explained at a press conference in Santander, as part of his participation in the ‘Quo vadis Europa?’ course, that “stock levels” are currently 70 %, up to almost 80 percent in some countries.

“Spain, which has 40% of the storage capacity of the whole of Europe, is at 80%”, he emphasized, making this process “going well”, although, he acknowledged, “everything depends on the tap”: “We fill tanks because the tap is open Not fully open as at the moment 20% of the capacity reaches us through pipelines and Russia has already announced that it will stop supplying for three days but everything seems to indicate that we can go into winter with good stock “.

Borrell has stressed that the EU has already replaced “half” of what was Russian gas, which supplied 40 percent of total consumption, and now accounts for 20 percent.

Savings and consumption reduction policy

The Vice-President of the European Commission has warned that this does not mean that the policy of saving and reducing consumption should not continue, which he says a “call” to the citizens in which, he pointed out, all European governments must exert influence: “This is something that concerns us all. Everyone has to do their part, because many small parts can make a difference”, he defended.

The Vice-President of the European Commission believes that it will be possible to spend the winter “perfectly” and “continue to function”, be it with “restrictions”, “downward adjustments” or with measures such as limiting the speed of vehicles: “But it’s not the end of the world,” he underlined.