@ARTICLE{Skrzyński_Tomasz_The_2020, author={Skrzyński, Tomasz}, volume={vol. 23}, number={No 3}, journal={Polityka Energetyczna - Energy Policy Journal}, pages={21-40}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Instytut Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energią PAN}, abstract={Underground gas storage facilities play an important part in the maintenance of balance between the constantly imported raw material and variable gas demand in the discussed part of Europe. They also allow for more the efficient operation of businesses which exploit this raw material in this part of Europe and operators of power lines. The following issues will be discussed in the article: types, capacity, location and variability of the filling level of underground gas storage facilities in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia; similarities and differences in the policy of natural gas storage between individual Visegrad Group countries; the influence of these differences on the situation in the gas market; the influence of the planned further reconstruction of the natural gas storage facilities system on the energy security of individual countries which belong to the Visegrad Group. Concern for UGSF is one of the conditions of expansion of transmission pipelines to the north and south, increase of LNG import within the Visegrad Group, or the creation of a gas hub in Poland – initiatives aimed at, among others, securing the continuity of supplies to domestic users. However, the current and planned investments indirectly indicate that in the policies of the governments of the Visegrad Group countries, UGSF are supposed to soon play a much smaller role than many researchers would expect. An intensive expansion of UGSF is very unlikely. The scale of the state’s effect on the role of storage facilities in supplying gas to users depends on the level of the state’s control over the companies managing UGSF.}, type={Article}, title={The role of underground gas storage facilities in the continuous supply of natural gas to domestic recipients based on the example of the Visegrad Group}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/118050/PDF/02-PE-07-Skrzy%C5%84ski.pdf}, keywords={energy policy, underground gas storage facilities, natural gas market, gas infrastructure}, }