On his arrival at the Energy Council on Thursday 30 May, the German State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Sven Giegold, announced that the German government had agreed to abolish the gas storage neutrality charge (‘Gasspeicherumlage’) at border transfer points from 1 January 2025.
This announcement was made a few hours before a planned briefing on the subject at the Energy Council at the request of the Austrian, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian delegations.
These...