The energy supplier EnBW has increased its planned purchases of liquid gas from the USA. The company has increased the purchase volume announced in June this year by Venture Global LNG from Arlington in the US state of Virginia by 0.5 million tons per year, both companies announced on Thursday.

This means that EnBW will purchase 2 million tons of LNG per year from the US company from 2026. The supply contracts have a term of 20 years. In order to become less dependent on Russian natural gas and to strengthen diversification and security of supply, EnBW is supporting the federal government by further expanding access to LNG supplies, said Georg Stamatelopoulos, EnBW board member for sustainable generation infrastructure, according to the announcement.