The Haidach gas storage facility on the border between Upper Austria and Salzburg will be connected to the Austrian gas network before the end of this year. Regular operations are scheduled to begin on December 20.
“It is built meticulously,” says board member Alfons Haber of E-Control according to “profile”. On December 14, the filling of the gas storage could be started.
Haidach will be connected to the Penta West gas pipeline, which runs from Oberkappel through Upper Austria to the German-Austrian border. The gas can be further distributed through other pipelines such as the WAG.
Austria has withdrawn part of the storage facility from Gazprom
Until a few months ago, the gas storage in Haidach was in the hands of the Russian gas company Gazprom, which had built up its own capacity in Western Europe. With regard to the costs – ten million euros were estimated at the start of the project – RAG AG, as Austria’s largest energy storage company, referred to the Gas Industry Act 2011.
Accordingly, the costs should be passed on to the storage companies. Haidach has so far been supplied by various companies from Germany and mainly supplied the Bavarian industry with gas, as well as Tyrol and Vorarlberg via Germany.
Source: Krone
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