According to the French gas transport network “GRTGAZ,” France started supplying gas directly to Germany on Thursday as part of the European Union’s energy solidarity effort to counter Russian gas exports.
According to a statement from the French company, “Gritazi moved to adapt its network and give the official nature a proposal to market the transport of gas from France to Germany in the context of a sharp decline in Russian gas prices towards Europe and in the context of European solidarity on energy security.”
The first delivery of gas to Germany began at six o’clock at a rate of 31 GB hours per day, passing through the cities of Ubergailbash (Mozi) from the French side and Middlesheim from the German side, at the meeting point of the gas network lines, according to the company.
With a daily maximum capacity of 100 gigawatts, the business noted that the tide level “would be assessed daily according to the network conditions.”
According to the business, this capability is comparable to the power generated by four nuclear reactors and equals 10% of the daily liquefied natural gas consumption in France at its four methane stations.
The corporation claims that even though the single intersection at the French-German border was initially intended to transfer people from Germany to France, it was required to reflect the flows in order to permit this movement.
“This is historical, it is the first time that France has sent gas directly to Germany, as we were sending before now the gas to our German neighbor via Belgium,” the general manager of the French company, Tari Truvie, told AFP.
In order to “make the flow from France to Germany effective,” the French company, in collaboration with the German transportation firms “Open Grid EUROPE and GRTGAZ Deutschland,” undertook “technical changes.
” For its part, Germany has taken regulatory measures to receive French gas, which contains a percentage of sulfur, as the German industry does not necessarily use this type of gas.
Gas, on which Germany heavily depends to run its factories, which are the backbone of its economy, is scarce in that country.
France has access to more gas than its neighbour does because it makes use of supplies of liquefied natural gas, particularly from the United States, which allowed it to partially fill its supply by 100% for the winter.
Direct gas piping from France into Germany
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