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Gas Roads & GTE
Colin Hamilton (European Policy)
2nd July 2009
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Gas Roads & GTE
Transparency and the 3rd Package
Commission’s proposed Annex
GTE to ENTSOG
Gas Roads – the “Transparency Platform”
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What is the 3rd Package?
Intention is to help further facilitate fully liberalised European gas and electricity markets and force the current wide regional differences to converge towards a single market.
Transmission Network Unbundling is a key element - three models considered
Also, the formation of formal European Transporter bodies, ENTSO-G and ENTSO-E
The creation of a formal body of regulators, known as ACER
Both will be involved in the development of European Network Codes
3rd Package approved 25th June 2009 Published in Official Journal - August 2009 Enters into force 20 days later Documents found via
– http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/misc/108740.pdf
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Transparency and the 3rd Package
2nd Package (EC 1775/2005) focussed on access Publication of technical, sold and available capacity Transparent, objective and non-discriminatory tariffs
3rd Package requires publication of supply/demand information
Ex-ante & ex-post based on nominations, forecasts and realised
flows
TSOs developing common understanding of what should be published to meet new obligations
National Grid doing “gap analysis” – may result in UNC Mods being raised
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Commission's Proposed Annex
Proposed amendment to Annex 3 (Transparency) to
Regulation Aim to put through comitology (September 2009)
Greatly extends transparency requirements– “Relevant points” extended to virtually every point
– Gas quality parameters and pressure requirements for each
relevant point
– Daily linepack forecasts
– Historic data published – extended to 5 years
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GTE to ENTSOG
Gas Transmission Europe (GTE) part of association
of gas infrastructure operators (GIE, Gas Infrastructure
Europe)
GIE has 3 columns: transmission, storage and LNG
Under 3rd Package GTE will become the European
Network of Transport System Operators (Gas), ENTSOG
Link = http://www.gie.eu.com/
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GTE to ENTSOG
Duties of ENTSOG include: Common network operation tools and research plans
10-year network development plan
Annual work programme
Annual report
Annual summer and winter supply outlooks
Technical and market codes (European Network Codes)– Will involve stakeholder consultation
– May result in UNC Mod proposals
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Gas Roads – the “Transparency Platform”
Consultation with stakeholders identified need for
gas transport information in single placeGTE+ Transparency platform was proposed solutionAligns with current EU Regulation 1775/2005 and
anticipates 3rd package Publication of technical information necessary for Users to
gain effective network access
User-friendly standardized manner
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Gas Roads – the “Transparency Platform”
Phase 1 launched November 2008 http://www.gas-roads.eu Capacity & Tariff information Capacity “route planner” Information from 27 TSOs
Phase 2 from Q2 2009 onwards Nominations, allocations Balancing Interruption
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