Natural gas imports increased by 12 per cent in August

In August, the volume of natural gas imports increased by 12 per cent in a year-on-year comparison, reaching 204.2 gigawatt-hours. The smallest amount of natural gas that reached Estonia over a twenty-four-hour period was 2.6 gigawatt-hours and the largest amount was 8.5 gigawatt-hours.

In August, the amount of domestic transmission service rendered by Elering increased by 12.2 per cent in a year-on-year comparison and totalled 204.0 gigawatt-hours. The reserve capacity of the transmission pipeline decreased by 10 per cent in a yearly calculation, and stood at 42.2 gigawatt-hours by the end of the month.

Gas transit took place in the direction of Russia to Latvia through the gas transit pipeline that passes through southeast Estonia, to a total of 2,295 gigawatt-hours. In August 2016, the amount of transit was twice as much, totalling 4,586 gigawatt-hours.

In August, there were no transactions of the Lithuanian GET Baltic gas exchange in the Estonian market area. The average price was 17.33 euros per megawatt-hour in Latvia and  16.93 euros per megawatt-hour in Lithuania. The average system price of the Baltics was 16.93 euros per megawatt-hour. The comparable price on the Finnish Kaasupörssi was 20.36 per megawatt-hour.

The Inčukalns underground gas storage facility in Latvia was filled with natural gas within the amount of 2,720 gigawatt-hours. No gas was pumped to the gas transmission network. 30.8 per cent of the capacity of the gas storage facility was reached by the end of August.

According to the initial balance settlement in August, the shares of the balance provider’s portfolios based on consumptions were as stated below: