The price of natural gas continued to rise on January 14 at Bucharest commodity exchange BRM due to the cooling weather and uncertainties regarding the long-term functionality of the only gas pipeline that still transports Russian gas to Europe, TurkStream.<\/p>\n
The price exceeded the threshold of RON 300 (EUR 60) per MWh for the first time in almost 2 years, Profit.ro<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n After a long period of being a net exporter of gas, Romania became a net importer again on Tuesday, January 14.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, a large quantity of gas was traded on the intraday market, 12.6 GWh, up 65% compared to the previous day, at a record average price of the last 2 years of RON 305 per MWh.<\/p>\n While on the BRM the gas price for the day-ahead market was EUR 58.7 per MWh on January 14, on the most important regional market, the Austrian CEGH, it was EUR 8.4 lower, at EUR 50.3 per MWh.<\/p>\n