{"id":772343,"date":"2026-02-18T09:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/772343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:57:21","slug":"europe-gas-prices-slip-as-mild-and-windy-weather-curb-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/772343\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe gas prices slip as mild and windy weather curb demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU gas storage sites were last 33 per cent full, their lowest since 2022, and 11 percentage points less than at the same time last year, Gas Infrastructure Europe data showed.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, storages are just 23 per cent full, the lowest level for the time of year since at least 2011, but this remains above legal thresholds and gas supplies are secure, the German economy ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a continued increase in wind power generation should also limit gas demand for power generation, further improving the European gas balance, analysts at Engie Energyscan said.<\/p>\n<p>The British day-ahead gas price was down 2.50p at 70.50p per therm. The Dutch day-ahead contract was up \u20ac0.67 at \u20ac30.60\/MWh.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Nora Buli; editing by Nina Chestney)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU gas storage sites were last 33 per cent full, their lowest since 2022, and 11 percentage points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1824,774,20277,225840,1477,300,6860,15,49],"class_list":["post-772343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-germany","tag-iran","tag-mena","tag-middle-east-conflicts","tag-netherlands","tag-north-america","tag-qatar","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116091043595818977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}