German gas storage levels were at 98.8% on Sunday, second highest level they’ve been in the last 10 years at a similar date. This is despite temperatures being 0,7 degrees Celsius lower than on the average last week. The gas situation in Germany so far is going far better than expected

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  2. **the situation is going so much better than expected,that the Bundesnetzagentur revised its 5 scenario model**

    * in the curent model,in only 1 scenario does Germany run out of gas by the end of winter: if gas consumption doesn’t decline at all compared to last 5 year average,there are no LNG deliveries,and normal deliveries from Norway,Netherlands,Belgium fall by 20%
    * in the average scenario,we reach a minimum of 35% gas storage level by beginning of April
    * **in the best case scenario,we reach a level of 65% by the beggining of April:this involves consumption falling 20%,normal deliveries + LNG**

    [**https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2022-11/gasversorgung-speicher-verbrauch-winter-prognose**](https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2022-11/gasversorgung-speicher-verbrauch-winter-prognose)

    **back in August,when the BNA made its first scenario modeling,**

    * **in 3 out of 5 scenarios Germany ran out of gas.**
    * average scenario meant Germany running out of gas
    * in the BEST CASE scenario,gas storage level was just **12% at beggining of April**

    [**https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Gasversorgung/Hintergrund/Gas_Szenarien.pdf;jsessionid=F5DB5C72B030AD9E338CBDA69A1A3CC1?__blob=publicationFile&v=1**](https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Gasversorgung/Hintergrund/Gas_Szenarien.pdf;jsessionid=F5DB5C72B030AD9E338CBDA69A1A3CC1?__blob=publicationFile&v=1)

    TLDR: chances of running out of gas this winter are lower and lower.

    **2-nd worst scenario now is much better than best case scenario made in August**

    there is a growing chance we have over 50% storage level in April 2023. in that case,we could fill gas storage back to 100% with no problems without Russian gas

  3. Checkmate Russia. You unleashed Germany. All of Europe will tremble before the German pretzel. Their football team no longer inspires fear.

  4. It’s the electricity and gas costs. For many businesses it’s simply not profitable to produce more. So they use less.

  5. Had to read the gas counter(?) for our gas provider yesterday. My roommate and I used over 30% less gas compared to the last two years. And to be honest, it didn’t really bother us that much. Walking around with a sweater instead of a shirt.

  6. How lovely, look forward to the companies sharing some of their record profits by reversing the 140% price hike! I’ll just be over here, waiting for my refund…

  7. Good to see the consumption going down. Rationing as a result of the price increase works in a free market.

  8. I think that the past weeks and months have shown that if you really want to reduce your gas and electricity consumption, it is possible, but the majority of people won’t really do it unless they are basically forced to.

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