Berlin - The gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine is escalating. Many European countries have reported on Tuesday on massive supply outages. Even German energy suppliers are sounding the alarm (EXPRESS.DE reported>).
And that coming during the coldest winter in years! German consumers have now fear for their warm heating?
The German gas industry for the time being sees no reason to panic. "Consumers can rely on a secure supply of natural gas," says the CEO of the Association of Energy and Water, Martin Weyand.
Germany refers to two-thirds of natural gas from Western European and German sources, 37 percent came from Russia.
Balance "to the current failure to deliver, from Russia, could quantities of natural gas from other countries like Norway or the Netherlands in the short term," said Weyand.
In addition, Germany has with its 46 natural gas storage facilities on the highest natural gas storage capacity in Europe. The storage capacities correspond almost one quarter of annual consumption 2007th
