In view of the latest developments in Russia's gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, the Federal Network Agency has emphasized that the gas supply in Germany is currently secure.

“We are monitoring the situation closely.

The security of supply in Germany is currently still guaranteed,” said a spokesman for the authorities on Wednesday morning in Bonn.

The governments in Poland and Bulgaria announced on Tuesday that Russia intends to stop natural gas deliveries to their countries on Wednesday.

In the morning there was initially no confirmation that these steps had already been taken.

One third full

The German natural gas storage facilities are slowly filling up again.

On Monday, the filling level of all German storage was 33.4 percent, as the Federal Network Agency announced in its gas supply management report.

It is currently being stored relatively constantly.

The filling levels are comparable to 2017 and are now significantly higher than in spring 2015, 2018 and 2021, according to the authority.

According to an overview of European storage operators, the filling level has been increasing continuously since April 5th.

For comparison: On March 18, the storage tanks were 24.2 percent full, the lowest value for the winter of 2021/22.

Meanwhile, after Russia stopped supplying gas to Poland and Bulgaria, FDP foreign policy expert Alexander Graf Lambsdorff expects Germany to take the same step in the future.

"As soon as we approach the point where we are independent of Russian supplies, you have to expect something like that, with political gestures like that," Lambsdorff said on Deutschlandfunk on Wednesday.

"But we shouldn't let that intimidate us or make us nervous.

We're on our way to saying goodbye to those deliveries anyway.”

Other energy sources in demand

A coal embargo has already been decided, said the member of the Bundestag.

Economics Minister Robert Habeck travels around the world to develop other sources for oil and gas.

"And then the question is indeed: Isn't it a question of shouting a few slogans behind customers who are leaving the store anyway," asked Lambsdorff.

Russia announced on Tuesday that it would stop supplying gas to Poland and Bulgaria from Wednesday.