The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) publishes today its Opinion on the Winter Supply Outlook for 2022/2023 of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG).
ACER appreciates that the Outlook assumptions and methodology were revised to consider already reduced gas flows from Russia and that it includes a scenario of full disruption of Russian gas. However, ACER recommends further improvements to some of the assumptions. In particular, ACER advises ENTSOG to incorporate EU gas demand reduction targets in demand projections, as gas demand savings are fundamental for improving preparedness for this winter and the next one.
ACER welcomes that the EU storage filling levels have increased to close to 95% by 1 November 2022. Storage should be carefully used during the winter season to have sufficient gas at the end of this winter and to meet the gas storage filling targets for February 2023, set out by the European Commission.
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