{
  "id": 14395031,
  "title": "Energy: Ministry of Economics wants to finance gas reserve through surcharge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/energie-wirtschaftsministerium-will-gasreserve-uber-umlage-finanzieren",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-14T07:08:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/energie-wirtschaftsministerium-will-gasreserve-ueber-umlage-finanzieren-01/100261905.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs plans to finance a national gas reserve through a levy, according to a draft proposal. The reserve aims to hold 24 terawatt-hours of gas to cover extreme situations such as sabotage or infrastructure failure. The costs are estimated to be between 247 and 308 million euros per year for the first ten years. The reserve would be used to prevent industrial customers from being disconnected and private gas supplies from being confiscated, and can only be deployed after the Federal Network Agency declares a state of emergency.",
  "summary": "According to a draft, despite criticism, the ministry is sticking to the financing approach it has already been pursuing. For typical households, additional costs of a single-digit amount per year would arise.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Handelsblatt",
        "title": "Energy: Ministry of Economics wants to finance gas reserve through surcharge",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/energie-wirtschaftsministerium-will-gasreserve-uber-umlage-finanzieren",
        "published": "2026-10-13T12:43:41.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}