{"id":517909,"date":"2022-08-30T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517909"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:17:36","slug":"storage-targets-met-in-germany-gas-to-be-cheaper-soon-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/storage-targets-met-in-germany-gas-to-be-cheaper-soon-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage targets met in Germany, gas to be cheaper soon, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Economy Minister Robert Habeck expects gas prices to fall soon as Germany is making progress on its storage targets and won&#8217;t have to pay the high asking prices currently commanding the market, he said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, the markets will calm and go down,\u201d he said, adding that they had shot up recently due to high demand as well as market speculation, which could not be sustained long term.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s gas storage facilities are nearly 83 per cent full and will hit 85 per cent full in early September, Habeck said at an energy event in Hamburg. Germany has set a goal for gas storage levels to be 85 per cent filled by Oct 1 and 95 per cent filled by Nov 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Economy Minister Robert Habeck expects gas prices to fall soon as Germany is making progress on its storage targets and won&#8217;t have to pay the high asking prices currently commanding the market, he said on Monday. \u201cAs a result, the markets will calm and go down,\u201d he said, adding that they had shot up recently due to high demand as well as market speculation, which could not be sustained long term. Germany\u2019s gas storage facilities are nearly 83 per cent full and will hit 85 per cent full in early September, Habeck said at an energy event in Hamburg. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}