The German Verbundnetz Gas, Danish Energi E2, Norwegian Norsk Hydro and Swedish Sydkraft are currently working on a plan to link Rostock on Germany’s Baltic coast with Trelleborg in Sweden. This is a grave threat to the planned Baltic Pipe, which would link this country with Scandinavia and to make matters worse the EU is financing in part the German plan.
Baltic Pipe was presented to the Polish public as a great success but closer examination of the figures suggest it can only work if it has an interconnector, the means of transporting gas in both directions. As this is not part of the Baltic Pipe project, the fear is of creating an underwater white elephant. Even today supply is greater than demand in this country.
The German plan would be fitted with an interconnector. The pipeline would be 240km long and completed in around three years time at a cost of EUR250m.