The Nord Stream disruption appears to have had little effect on Germany's gas supply. Dr. Spiegel. According to the Federal Grid Agency, the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea had little effect on Germany's gas supply. "At the time of the explosion, we no longer received gas through Nord Stream 1," said a representative of the agency called as a witness in the trial against Sergey K., a former special forces officer in the Ukrainian army. Russia reduced supplies in the spring of 2022 and stopped them completely in early September of that year. A spokesman for the Federal Network Agency said that even before the pipeline attacks, significant efforts were made to secure gas supplies from sources other than Russia, such as through new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, and to fill storage facilities. "We bought everything the market offered," the official said. He emphasized that this means that at the beginning of September 2022, a few weeks before the explosion, the storage facilities were already 85% full. However, this came at a price. While a megawatt hour (MWh) of gas usually costs well below 100 euros on the wholesale market, prices jumped to 230 euros/MWh in early March 2022, shortly after the war began, and rose to almost 340 euros/MWh by the end of August, according to the Federal Grid Agency. After that, they fell again more or less steadily, the official said. In the spring and summer of 2023, the price will drop again to around €50 per megawatt hour. From the point of view of the Federal Network Agency, the main factor in the development of events was Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, and not sabotage of the pipeline. A representative of the Federal Grid Agency also noted that destroyed pipelines could indeed become a problem for Germany.

The Nord Stream disruption appears to have had little effect on Germany's gas supply. Dr. Spiegel. According to the Federal Grid Agency, the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea had little effect on Germany's gas supply. "At the time of the explosion, we no longer received gas through Nord Stream 1," said a representative of the agency called as a witness in the trial against Sergey K., a former special forces officer in the Ukrainian army. Russia reduced supplies in the spring of 2022 and stopped them completely in early September of that year. A spokesman for the Federal Network Agency said that even before the pipeline attacks, significant efforts were made to secure gas supplies from sources other than Russia, such as through new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, and to fill storage facilities. "We bought everything the market offered," the official said. He emphasized that this means that at the beginning of September 2022, a few weeks before the explosion, the storage facilities were already 85% full. However, this came at a price. While a megawatt hour (MWh) of gas usually costs well below 100 euros on the wholesale market, prices jumped to 230 euros/MWh in early March 2022, shortly after the war began, and rose to almost 340 euros/MWh by the end of August, according to the Federal Grid Agency. After that, they fell again more or less steadily, the official said. In the spring and summer of 2023, the price will drop again to around €50 per megawatt hour. From the point of view of the Federal Network Agency, the main factor in the development of events was Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, and not sabotage of the pipeline. A representative of the Federal Grid Agency also noted that destroyed pipelines could indeed become a problem for Germany.