Deutsche ReGas, Germany’s personal operator of liquefied pure fuel (LNG) terminals, has launched into a authorized battle to problem the European Fee’s approval of the €4.96 billion subsidy scheme, claiming that state support for LNG terminals harms competitors and weakens fuel safety.
Deutsche ReGas’ lawsuit, filed on January 16, 2026, with the competent court docket of the European Union (EU), revolves across the European Fee’s approval of state support for the federal authorities’s floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) terminals, amounting to as much as €4.96 billion.
The personal German agency explains that the development and operation of the power terminal Deutsche Ostsee in Mukran, in addition to the earlier LNG terminal in Lubmin, had been carried out with out state support.
The corporate emphasizes that the most important quantity of fuel by far of all German LNG terminals was delivered by means of the Deutsche Ostsee power terminal through the present heating interval within the fourth quarter of 2025, supplying 15% of German households and business clients with fuel.
The terminal featured two regasification vessels, FSRU Neptune and FSRU Energos Energy, earlier than the contract for the latter was terminated as Deutsche ReGas felt the LNG pricing coverage by the Deutsche Vitality Terminal (DET), an organization that operates the state-owned floating LNG terminals, was detrimental to the German market.
Ingo Wagner, Managing Companion of Deutsche ReGas, commented: “In the beginning of the power disaster in 2022, we already constructed two privately financed LNG terminals in document time at lower than a tenth of the price of the federal terminals. As a personal infrastructure operator, we make an vital contribution to provide safety.
“The state funding for LNG terminals, amounting to five billion euros, is pointless and harms competitors. It results in a discount in capacities, has opposed results on the filling of German fuel storage services, and thereby weakens provide safety.”
DET, a part of the German Federal Ministry for Financial Affairs and Local weather Motion, introduced on-line the second LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven, because the nation’s third LNG import terminal, in Could 2025.
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