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Gas storage capacity bookings

Available Capacities:

AUCTION 05/2025

 

EPG is marketing capacities totalling 175.00 GWh for the "Trading KAT" product in the Trading Hub Europe (THE) market area for the rest of the storage year 2025/2026.

Until 1 November 2025, the injection capacity will be increased and can be used independently of the characteristic curve. From 1 November 2025 onwards, you will inject according to the characteristic curve logic.

The following capacities are offered for the storage period from 05 September 2025 until 01 April 2026:

Capacities

WGV firm

175.00 GWh

IR firm (until 01/11/2025)

IR firm (from 01/11/2025)

900.00 MWh/h

131.25 MWh/h

WR firm

245.00 MWh/h

Storage location

UGS Katharina (Market area THE)

Storage Period

05/09/2025, 06:00 CE(S)T – 01/04/2026, 06:00 CE(S)T

Capacity Category

firm Working Gas Volume, Injection and Withdrawal Rate

Service Fee

Bid in €/MWh for the entire service period

Variable Injection Fee

0.550 €/MWh

Delivery Point

Bobbau, EIC-Code 21Z000000000372I

Transport

Not included

Auction Date

03 September 2025 from 13:00 - 13:30 CEST

 

Bids are accepted in €/MWh for the entire service period in the VNG Gasspeicher GmbH easystore customer portal. Registration in the easystore customer portal is necessary.

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Sample Contract Trading

Procedure Description

General Terms & Conditions

Operating Manual

AUCTION 04/2025

 

EPG is marketing capacities totalling 2,000.00 GWh for the "Trading KAT" product in the Trading Hub Europe (THE) market area for the storage years 2026/27 and 2027/28.


The following capacities are offered for the storage period from 01 April 2026 until 01 April 2028:

Capacities

WGV firm

2,000.00 GWh

IR firm

1,500.00 MWh/h

WR firm

2,800.00 MWh/h

Storage location

UGS Katharina (Market area THE)

Storage Period

01/04/2026, 06:00 CE(S)T – 01/04/2028, 06:00 CE(S)T

Capacity Category

firm Working Gas Volume, Injection and Withdrawal Rate

Service Fee

Bid in €/MWh per storage year

Variable Injection Fee

0.570 €/MWh in the storage year 2026/27

0.620 €/MWh in the storage year 2027/28

Delivery Point

Bobbau, EIC-Code 21Z000000000372I

Transport

Not included

Auction Date

01 September 2025 at the earliest and 30 October 2025 at the latest in the time from 13:00 - 13:30 CEST

 

Bids are accepted in €/MWh per storage year in the VNG Gasspeicher GmbH easystore customer portal. Registration in the easystore customer portal is necessary.

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All relevant documents can be found here:

Sample Contract Trading

Procedure Description

General Terms & Conditions

Operating Manual

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 03/2025 RESULTS

 

The KAT RoSY 25/26 auction on July 8, 2025, was successfully completed. The entire 1,280 GWh working gas volume was sold.

 

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 02/2025 RESULTS

 

The KAT RoSY 25/26 auction on May 8, 2025, was successfully completed. The entire 1,500 GWh working gas volume was sold.

 

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 01/2025 CANCELLED

 

The auction announced until March 31, 2025 (1,000 GWh 2025/26 - Trading KAT) was not carried out due to the current market situation. No capacities were allocated.

 

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 05/2024 RESULTS

 

On 19.12.2024 no storage capacities offered via easystore auction (1,000 GWh for SY 2025-2027) were allocated. The internal minimum bid was not reached.

 

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 04/2024 RESULTS

 

On 17.10.2024 all storage capacities offered via easystore auction (1,000 GWh for SY 2025-2027) were fully booked by customers.

EPG received many bids from different companies and the volume of bids exceeded the offered capacity by multiple times.

 

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 03/2024 RESULTS

 

On 30.08.2024 the storage capacities offered via EASYSTORE auction (1 TWh for SY 25/26) were partially booked by customers.

EPG received 15 bids from different companies and the volume of bids exceeded the offered capacity. The internal minimum bid was not reached for the complete capacities.

 

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 02/2024 RESULTS

 

On 21.03.2024 all storage capacities offered via PRISMA auction (54 SBUs for SY 2024) were fully booked by customers.

EPG received many bids from different companies and the volume of bids exceeded the offered capacity by more than 5 times.

 

ERDGASSPEICHER PEISSEN GMBH AUCTION 01/2024 RESULTS

 

On 27.02.2024 all storage capacities offered via PRISMA auction (90 SBUs for SYs 2024 and 2025) were fully booked by customers.

EPG received many bids from different companies and the volume of bids exceeded the offered capacity by almost 4 times.

 

 

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