By P Gosselin on 6. February 2026
The article from Blackout News, published on February 5, 2026, warns that the energy situation in Germany is becoming increasingly critical, with a significant rise in the risk of a gas shortage.
Gas storage running out. Symbol image generated by Grok AI
Politicians, media lying about “harsh winter” being the cause of the shortage… Reality: Mismanagement is to blame…Germany was never even prepared for a WARM winter!
By late January 2026, German gas storage levels had dropped to approximately 32.75%. As of today, February 6, 2026: the storage fill levels are at only 28.1%. And things risk getting much worse.
Neighboring countries are at their limits
In an article, Blackout News highlights several factors contributing to this precarious situation. Firstly. Germany’s most important supplier via pipeline, Norway, is reaching its technical limits and Germany cannot “simply order more” because the pipelines are already operating near maximum capacity.
Secondly, the Netherlands, often viewed as a backup source, currently has even lower storage levels than Germany. In a crisis, nations prioritize their own supply, making additional exports to Germany unlikely.
US LNG won’t make a dent
Germany cannot also rely on LNG supplies from USA as severe cold snaps increase global competition for LNG, making it either unavailable or prohibitively expensive on the world market.
The situation is dire, according to Blackout News: “With constant, typical winter consumption, the remaining gas reserves in a tense scenario will only last for a maximum of about six weeks.”
Solar and wind not coming through
Another problem are the periods of low wind and solar output (known as a Dunkelflaute), which act as a “multiplier” for the crisis. During these times, gas-fired power plants must run longer to compensate for the lack of renewable energy, further depleting reserves.
Myth: Cold, harsh winter
Fact: Current winter significantly warmer
Politicians are blaming “the cold winter” for the woes. But the real reason is the country’s catastrophic energy supply mismanagement, especially the transition to green energies.
Based on recent meteorological data from the German Weather Service (DWD), the winter of 2025/26 (up to early February) has been significantly warmer than the 1961–1990 reference period, which the DWD likes to use when reporting its monthly climate reports.
“Germany’s most important supplier via pipeline, Norway, is reaching its technical limits and Germany cannot “simply order more” because the pipelines are already operating near maximum capacity.”
Germany could always buy British gas from the North Sea, but mad Miliband is busy shutting that down.
I remember 50 years ago that North Sea countries regarded the newly developed off shore gas and oil fields very positively. Only Norway is using the resource properly as the UK commits suicide.
Leftists were for peace and prosperity before they were against it.
This is what happens when you have liberal arts idiots in charge and you wage war against your supplier of cheap clean energy…. it’s just as well they have no industry, they would already be in trouble.
No, it’s what happens when you have Marxists and Globalists in charge, whose goal is to de-industrialize the West.
You really have to milk that before it turns out to be a Nothingburger, right?
You mean you have inside knowledge and it is not as bad as thought?
No, he/she has no views about the German gas storage situation, or about German wind and solar generation during February and its impact on gas consumption, or about the severity of this particular German winter.
Its a different state of mind, its just looking for anything provocative and content free that this person can find to say to irritate the other visitors.
Could be a bot. But whatever, there are no quantified opinions on any climate or energy topic. Its not being posted to have a discussion.
Nick Stokes is sometimes wrong, often misleading, but what he posts is an attempt at rational argument on the topic at issue from a point of view which differs from most readers here. There is scope for argument with him. This is a different thing altogether.
Germany and Holland may get away with it this year, as apparently has the UK. But one of these winters the odds are that at least one of the three will not.
They should all study how Ukrainians are surviving without electricity on many days.
Nothingbrain can’t handle the truth. 🤣
He has no knowledge of anything. He just echoes whatever the party tells him to believe.
“You really have to milk that before it turns out to be a Nothingburger”
Sounds like “climate science™” doesn’t it ! 😉
It all depends on coming weather, and the forecasts aren’t very good.
No, everyone already knows you are a nothingburger.
The Netherlands is at 21% today. Only 1% away from the point where delivery will get exponentely worse. There is only gas left for a mere 4-5 weeks. In 1-2 weeks the gaspressure will start to dwindle and heating will start to fail.
This is going absolutely and horribly wrong.
Remember The Netherlands has one of the world largest gasreserves but won’t use it because of imbecilic green activists in the government.
Curse the darkness.
A cold snap is in the forecast for them this week. Things are..er…heating up. LNG prices are already responding.
My research found some interesting impacts on the US. Countries like Germany and the Netherlands are going to be running on fumes by Spring, their NG storage at close to 10%, which cannot be used (lack of pressure). They face refilling them the 90% they’ve used, which means enormous LNG buys throughout summer. The demand for US supplied LNG will keep NG prices from experiencing their usual summer declines, and we will start off next winter at higher price-points. Global demand for NG is starting to put pressure on supply, pipelines, and LNG facilities.
We would benefit from some global warming.
In a fit of hysterical fear Germany’s nuclear power capacity was destroyed by Angela Merkle. Does Germany have any regrets?
Well. The current chancelor, Merz has publically criticised the Enrgy-transition, The EU and mass-immigration.
He doesn’t stop people being arrested when they tweet these exact same words because those people are clearly rightwing-extremist nazi’s. Conveniently forgetting that the Nazi’s were socialists.
So the message from the top is what every sane German has been saying for the last 25 years.
No we wait anxiously on the actions.
Tweet? What is that?
There’s only one solution to the final solution-
Amsterdam to enact landmark ban on fossil fuel and meat advertising in public spaces
Stop the advertising now!
In other news, Amsterdam to import more Italian rubbish to burn!!
Already 900.000 kilo’s a week !!
Of course you cannot drive a diesel car into Amsterdam anymore because of…. air pollution.
You cannot make this up.
Correction: Amsterdam city council has bought a fleet of new rubbish collection trucks. They wanted them to be electric but it turned out that was way too incovenient so they bought dieseltrucks.
Rules fot thee,,
Or maybe Amsterdam could burn cannabis instead- that would be a win-win. 🙂
Well, it’s obvious if you stop that advertising, nobody will want those products any more. 🙂
According to many on the left, advertising is capable of creating demand where none existed before. It’s even capable of causing people to want things they previously hated.
Do you think all the money and research spend on advertising is just to inform you?
Some people, with weak minds, need to be told what they have to do and to buy.
They are called “leftists”
Actual EU gas storage data
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All available datasets can be downloaded (in Excel, CSV and JSON format). The data below offers an aggregated view – individual datasets by company and storage facility are also accessible through the collapsible view.
Thank you Krishna, for a useful resource.
It’s ok, Global Warming will kick in any day now and save the day, right Mylosernameretarded?
Ssssshhhh the doomsters might be discovering Archimedes Principle and SLR-
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“Myth: Cold, harsh winter
Fact: Current winter significantly warmer”
And
“Based on recent meteorological data from the German Weather Service (DWD), the winter of 2025/26 (up to early February) has been significantly warmer than the 1961–1990 reference period, which the DWD likes to use when reporting its monthly climate reports.“
Outright lie…
https://www.dwd.de/EN/press/press_release/EN/2026/20260130_the_weather_in_germany_in_january_2026.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2
“Press Release
The weather in Germany – January 2026
January 2026: wintry, but dry and very sunny start to the yearWinter temperatures and briefly mild interlude. The average temperature reached for the whole of Germany was -0.7 °C, which is 0.2 degrees below the value for the reference period 1961–1990 (-0.5 °C). Compared to the warmer reference period 1991–2020 (0.9 °C), the deviation was -1.6 degrees. Temperatures were generally in the range of normal climatological fluctuations, but with marked differences throughout the month. Frosty air prevailed over widespread areas during the first ten days of the month. At -21.7 °C, the nationwide lowest value was measured in Oberstdorf on the 6th. Towards mid-month, the weather turned milder everywhere in Germany, with a maximum temperature of 16.3 °C recorded in Emmendingen-Mundingen in the Upper Rhine Valley on the 16th. The last third of the month brought winter temperatures again.Low precipitation over wide areas, but much snow in parts of northern Germany
You and they don’t mention the ice rain days in and around Berlin, closed BER because of icy conditions over days, some tenthousands of broken legs, arms, other damages including paraplegia, the forbidden use of salt to free streets and pavements, because the health of trees is more important than the health of citizens.
Your post and what you copied is an example for a very bad use of averages.
Now matter how much you and (on doubt others) will deny it the statement I debunked is an outright lie.
FULL STOP
Is it a lie to say that climate science forecasts of a warmer winter have been proved correct this year?
https://www.the-berliner.com/english-news-berlin/coldest-january-in-16-years/#:~:text=Berlin's%20cold%2C%20sunny%20and%20dry,tumultuous%20road%20of%20climate%20change.&text=There%20hasn't%20been%20a,temperature%20was%20minus%201.9%20degrees.
“There hasn’t been a January that cold in Berlin for 16 years. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), the average temperature was minus 1.9 degrees. ”
And then we have from the hypocrite that is NTZ ….
“Myth: Cold, harsh winter
Fact: Current winter significantly warmer
FFS get real
There hasn’t been a January that cold in Berlin for 16 years.’
‘Based on recent meteorological data from the German Weather Service (DWD), the winter of 2025/26 (up to early February) has been significantly warmer than the 1961–1990 reference period, ‘
Remind me why 1961-1990 was 16 years ago….
What I can say you is, that around the end of the 1960 ies the weather patterns shifted in Berlin, where I was born and lived for around 20 years, from Eastern Continental weather to Western Atlantic weather.
Actual, there are Eastern weather patterns active.
https://observatorial.com/news/world/1615496/the-whole-east-is-slipping-slippery-chaos-and-flight-stop-in-berlin/
The river Spree is frozen
That shift was a reason for me to move to Côte d’Azur in Southern France in 1976, as “climate refugee” 🤣
You debunked nothing with your strawmen.
You debunked nothing with your strawmen.
FFS
Previous month was December 2025.. the start of winter
Germany was warmer
You omitted December 2025 temperatures, which is part of winter.
From the December 2025 press release:
“The average air temperature in December 2025 was 3.1 degrees Celsius ( °C ), 2.3 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990 (0.8 °C ).”
December and January together = warmer winter.
https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2025/20251230_pm_dezember_news.html?nn=16210
Your quote you used from the above article:
““Based on recent meteorological data from the German Weather Service (DWD), the winter of 2025/26 (up to early February)…”
Btw., 1961 to 1990 isn’t a valid reference periode anymore.
Remember how many times I have asked you for the standard deviation of the average figures you quote. Well, guess what you are just trumpeting? Standard deviation! If it is important when analyzing cold weather, why do you not do the same for warm weather?
Don’t be a hypocrite. If you want to have some scientific chops, then deal with scientific analysis properly – in every case, warm or cold. You can start by showing us the standard deviation for monthly global AVERAGE temperature.
If people are currently freezing their nuts off, do they g a f what poofteenths of a degree temperature difference there was from the last time they were freezing their nuts off?
Had you actually read the article, you would have noted that it actually mentioned that the current winter wasn’t all that severe.
It’s been your crowd that has been blaming the gas shortage on a “harsh winter”.
The Warmunists are grasping at straws again, blaming Germany’s situation on the weather. Plus, they are completely missing the point. If your energy system is dependent on the vicissitudes of the weather, then you’ve got a big problem, which you yourself created.
“Politicians, media lying about “harsh winter” being the cause of the shortage… Reality: Mismanagement is to blame…Germany was never even prepared for a WARM winter!”
It’s only harsh if you think the planet is on the verge of burning up. Such winters were common decades ago.
They should be pulling gas from the Earth and using it. Storing gas in the dead of winter is like storing a building full of food as you lie next to it starving to death. Stupid. How do you say stupid in German? They already have said it.
I think you misunderstand gas storage. Storage is built up in periods of low demand and released during periods of high demand. Even in the United States periods of high demand outstrip production capacity. Storage acts as a buffer.
I see the problem, and management is always improvable. But how? The article explains the predicament, but not how to get out of it. Seems like, to whatever extent renewables subbed for natural gas, they have stretched out natural gas supplies. So, not rhetorical, what should Germany be doing?
From the post:
“Another problem are the periods of low wind and solar output (known as a Dunkelflaute), which act as a “multiplier” for the crisis. During these times, gas-fired power plants must run longer to compensate for the lack of renewable energy, further depleting reserves.”
Let’s use our heads. When we use more of one source, we use less of another. And hope the writer is not dog whistling for more filthy lignite coal burning…
“…So, not rhetorical, what should Germany be doing?…”
Reactivate their Nukes
Frac their gas and use it
Build more nukes
Let their wind and solar die.
Germany has very little economically recoverable shale (i.e. “frac”) gas. I agree on nuclear, and believe that Fukushima fears were overblown. So, as soon as all of their current nuc waste is in safe, long term storage, and space is guaranteed for future waste, and word class practices are followed, they should KYSO.
IT indeterminate MT, they obviously need any economically competitive source. It’s right there in the article.
Germany has substantial shale gas reserves, estimated between 320 and 2,030 billion cubic meters (bcm), which is significantly larger than its conventional natural gas reserves of about 20 bcm. Most of these reserves are located in the northern state of Lower Saxony.
However, the extraction of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has been banned since 2017 due to [FAKE] environmental concerns
Nope. they have that much gas in place. It’s deeper, tighter than US gas in place, and Germans probably won’t go for environmental, safety, health Ben Dovers that we put up with here in the US. I.e:
None of these are “fake”, and if you were actually in the biz, you would know better. In fact, many are mentioned in the AI search you made, if only you had dug down deeper than your wishful thinking took you to.
All this even before real world economic analyses…..
Modern lignite burning is actually FAR cleaner and FAR more environmentally friendly over its lifetime than wind or solar.
For wind and solar you have to consider all the chemicals used in manufacturing, the massive environment damage during installation and while in use, the massive destruction of wildlife, and the huge amounts of garbage left to be dumped in forever polluting landfill at the end of their short erratic and parasitic supply.
On what planet? I cheated and used your search term:
Is Modern lignite burning actually FAR cleaner and FAR more environmentally friendly over its lifetime than wind or solar.
Here’s the AI header:
“Based on scientific, environmental, and lifecycle assessments, the claim that modern lignite burning is “FAR cleaner” and “FAR more environmentally friendly” over its lifetime than wind or solar is false.”
Here are the leading links:
https://www.airclim.org/acidnews/lignite-power-provides-bargain-priced-pollution#:~:text=Combustion%20of%20lignite%20is%20one,from%20peat%20to%20hard%20coal.
https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf#:~:text=These%20results%20show%20that%20total%20life%20cycle,(based%20on%20median%20estimates%20for%20each%20technology).
Admittedly, the second link compares ALL coal to the others, so it makes lignite coal look better than it is.
But feel free to back up your alt.fact claim that manufacturing and use of wind power equipment pollutes more over it’s lifetime than lignite coal. Your claim, so Hitchens Razor applies:
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
Remember when Trump told the EU they were heading for a catastrophic energy shortfall and they all laughed at him? For all his character shortcomings (too extensive to list :-)) he was right again. Once again a “conspiracy theory” is proven true with the passage of time. Europe has been led to destruction like a bull with a ring in its’ nose and they’re still in denial as sovereignty escaped them.
Reality: it’s because someone blew up Nord Stream pipes, and the Polish middlemen on the Baltic Gas Pipeline (“coincidentally” opened on the same day) are extortionists.
There is nothing surprising here, government is a very poor choice to be in charge of something as important as energy production and delivery. When will people learn?