36% less gas consumed in nine months compared to last year

According to Amber Grid, the gas transmission system operator, Lithuania’s gas demand has decreased significantly, but gas flows through the country’s transmission system have increased. Although the gas price curve on European exchanges has been moving downwards recently, this is due to the extremely high gas price this year and the need for timely gas supplies from countries with access to the Lithuanian gas transmission system, Amber Grid reports.

In the first nine months of this year, almost 30 terawatt-hours (TWh) of gas were delivered to Lithuania, excluding transit to Kaliningrad Oblast. This is 45% more than at the same time last year, when 20.5 TWh of gas was transported to Lithuania. For the needs of the other Baltic States and Finland, as well as for storage at the Inčukalns underground gas storage facility, 13.2 TWh of gas was transported via gas pipeline to Latvia. This is almost eight times more than in the same period in 2021.