In a press release published on 21 August, the European Commission welcomed the fact that the EU had reached its target of filling gas storage facilities to 90% capacity, ten weeks ahead of the 1 November deadline.
According to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe, gas storage levels reached 1,025 TWh or 90.02% of storage capacity (just under 92 billion cubic metres of natural gas) on 19 August.
This result is comparable to last year’s, when the EU reached the 90% gas storage target on...