Berlin, Dec 22 (IANS) Germany’s first liquefied (LNG) terminal has began operations, a day forward of schedule, in response to the nation’s largest gasoline importer Uniper.

A tanker loaded with round 165,000 cubic meters of LNG has already docked on the new terminal days earlier than, studies Xinhua information company.

The LNG was “sufficient to produce round 50,000 households for a yr”, in response to the federal government, which had chartered the tanker.

On December 17, the LNG terminal at Wilhelmshaven was formally opened by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

That is “just the start,” he mentioned.

Additional terminals for the import of LNG on the nation’s North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts are to comply with within the coming weeks and months.

“The plan is to have an import capability of over 30 billion cubic meters of gasoline by the top of 2024, which is greater than half the amount of gasoline that flowed via the pipelines from Russia to Germany final yr,” in response to the German authorities.

The LNG terminals are a part of an intensive effort to safe Germany’s provide amid the vitality disaster.

Measures embrace the short-term return to coal-fired energy vegetation as gasoline storage amenities have been crammed as much as full capability earlier than the winter.

–IANS