Rehden, a sleepy village in north-west Germany that is home to western Europe’s biggest natural gas storage facility, offers the key to understanding how hard it will be for Europe to wean itself off Russian energy.
The underground site, which spans the equivalent of 910 football pitches and accounts for a fifth of Germany’s gas storage capacity, is owned and operated by Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy group.
Gazprom, which controls a third of all German, Austrian and Dutch gas storage, emptied the tanks at Rehden and other EU sites to unusually low levels last year in an apparent attempt to squeeze European energy supplies ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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