DET said on Tuesday that its three chartered FSRUs delivered more than 25 terawatt-hours (TWh) of natural gas into the German grid during the period.
This is a 2.5-fold increase compared to the previous year’s figure (10 TWh; Q1 2025) and corresponds to around 10 percent of Germany’s total natural gas storage capacity, according to DET.
“Thanks to the construction and reliable operation of our terminals, DET can now regularly feed up to 350 gigawatt-hours of energy into the German gas grid. This significantly contributes to security of supply for private households and the economy, which is especially important in these times of geopolitical tension,” managing director Peter Rottgen said.
After three years of operation, DET now employs specialists from over 18 countries at its sites in Brunsbuttel, Stade, and Wilhelmshaven, as well as at its headquarters in Dusseldorf.
Last year, the federal government’s subsidiary fed 79 TWh into the grid via its FSRU-based facilities, significantly higher than the figures for the two previous years (59 TWh each).
This follows the commissioning of its second Wilhelmshaven FSRU-based facility in May last year.
“This year’s measures to fulfil the mandate of the LNG Acceleration Act passed by the federal government in 2022 include the Stade FSRU project and the construction of a new jetty at the Brunsbuttel Elbe port, which will strengthen the federal republic’s security of supply through the construction, operation, and marketing of LNG terminals,” DET said.
DET did not provide further details regarding the Stade FSRU-based facility.
In November 2025, DET announced that the Stade FSRU-based terminal would not go into operation before the second quarter of 2026, after it assumed responsibility for the superstructure from Hanseatic Energy Hub.
In March 2024, the 2021-built 174,000-cbm FSRU, Energos Force, owned by Apollo’s Energos Infrastructure and chartered by Germany’s federal government, arrived at the AVG jetty in Stade.
However, DET terminated the contract related to the Stade FSRU-based facility with compatriot Hanseatic Energy Hub, the developer of the onshore LNG terminal in Stade, in March last year.
DET also sub-chartered Energos Force for deployment in Jordan.
In addition to these facilities, private German LNG terminal operator Deutsche ReGas recently received permanent approval to operate its Mukran LNG facility with two FSRUs using onboard gas generators.
Since October last year, around 21 TWh have been fed into the German long-distance gas network via the FSRU-based facility, according to Deutsche ReGas.
