The Initiative for Energy Storage (Initiative Energien Speicher, Ines) has drawn a positive balance for gas supply for 2024. This year, too, there is no reason to fear a gas shortage.
According to the International Energy Agency's latest gas market report, demand for gas worldwide reached an all-time high in 2024, prompting the agency to call for increased cooperation.
The leak in the leaking pipe system in Emlichheim, which was discovered at the beginning of 2019, tipped the scales: After large quantities of reservoir water leaked in the Lower Saxony region on the German-Dutch border, where Wintershall Dea has…