“It’s being meticulously built,” said E-Control board member Alfons Haber, according to “profil”. The filling of the gas storage facility could begin on December 14th. Regular operations are scheduled to begin on December 20th. Haidach will be connected to the Penta West gas pipeline, which runs from Oberkappel across Upper Austria to the German-Austrian border. The gas can be further distributed via other pipelines such as the WAG.
Until a few months ago, the Haidach gas storage facility was in the hands of the Russian gas company Gazprom, which had built up its own capacities in Western Europe. With regard to the costs – EUR 10 million was forecast at the start of the project – RAG AG, as Austria’s largest energy storage company, referred to the Gas Industry Act 2011, according to which the costs are to be passed on to the storage companies. Until now, Haidach has been supplied by various companies from Germany and has mainly supplied Bavaria’s industry with gas, as well as Tyrol and Vorarlberg via Germany.
Source: Nachrichten
