Gas-to-power demand from France's 13 CCGT plants reached 495 GWh on January 25 amid a spell of cold weather affecting the country, French gas grid operator GRTgaz said.
The grid operator said the week until January 26 had been “marked by very cold temperatures” leading to a “robust supply of electricity from gas turbine power plants” which accounted for 10 % of national production on the peak day of January 25, when gas demand had reached 2,893 GWh, representing output of approximately 140 GW at peak gas consumption time (8 am).
GRTgaz warned that the bottleneck situation in South-East France continued, “despite alerts issued by GRTgaz and the arrival of two LNG tankers in Fos-sur-Mer.”
“The LNG deliveries were insufficient to cover the supply needs in the South-East and once again led to withdrawals from the Saline storage group, where the inventory level could drop to 35 % by the end of January, a five-year low for this time of year” it said.
Against this backdrop, GRTgaz “is keeping a close eye on the bottleneck situation in South-East France.”
It added that on 29 January, Fosmax LNG announced that six LNG tankers were scheduled to arrive in February, while “for the time being no ships are scheduled to deliver to Fos Tonkin in February.”
