GRI NW Transparency
StockholmStakeholder Group Conference
26 November 2009
Martin CrouchPartner: European Strategy
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Progress update
• Storage transparency– Daily information on storage volume, inflows and outflows– Go-live 1 October– Completion 1 December 2009
• Transmission transparency– Phase one completed 9 June 2009 – wrap up– Next steps for 2010
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Storage transparency
• Gas Storage Europe commitment for early implementation (3 months)
• GRI NW regulators will monitor and report on progress
• Example of daily update:
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GRI NW
COUNTRY Germany Great Britain France Denmark Belgium Netherlands
Storage System Operator
BEB Speicher GmbH
Centrica Storengy DONG Storage Fluxys NAM
E.ON Gas Storage GmbH
SSE/Statoil Energinet.dk TAQA
RWE Dea AG EDF Energy Gasunie
EWE Aktiengesellschaft
National Grid LNG
Essent
Bayerngas GmbH Scottish Power
VerbundnetzGas AG
Petronas
Exxonmobil GD GmbH
RWE Gasspeicher GmbH
Total StorageCurrent
SnapshotExpected
E.ON Hanse AG BCM 35.5 24.5 34.9
WINGAS GmbH % of total 68% 86% (96%)
Storage project - snapshot
Published Expected 1 December
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Transmission phase one: status
E.ON GT
Fluxys
Svenska
Kraftnät
RWE TNG
National
GridIUK
Gas-link
WIN-GAS
OntrasGRT-gaz
Energinet.dk
Gasunie DT
DEPSwede
gasGRT-
gaz DTGTS BBL
(C1) Max technical capacity
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place in place in placein place
in place
in place
in place
(C2) Interruption in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
In place
in place
in place in place in placein place
in place
in place
(C3) Daily commercial firm and interruptible capacity
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place in place in placein place
in place
in place
in place
(F1) Daily flow / aggregated Allocation
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
In place
In place
in place
In place in place in placein place
in place
in place
In place
(F2) Daily prompt allocation information
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place in place in place in place
in place
in place
(F3) Daily aggregate day-ahead nominations
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
In place
In place
In place
May2009 - Delay
Dec 2009
Dec 2009
Dec 2009
in place
Dec 2009
(F4) Historic gas flow information database
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
in place
In place
in place
in place in place in placein place
in place
in place
In place
Number of IPs 22 19 1 5 8 4 1 8 3 9 6 7 2 1 5 25 43 minus rule IPs 0 5 0 3 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
TSOs report published Specific date Less than three shippers Not committed to dateNot applicable
GRTGaz published July - WINGAS published October 2009 (96% compliant)
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Transmission transparency next steps
• Developments since phase 1:– New third package requirements– Network users’ “minimum transparency requirements”– Expectation of European Commission’s comitology proposals
• Last Stakeholder group invited TSOs to bring forward proposals based on new requirements
• GTE+ made proposals for pan-EU implementation
• Debate has moved to EU level; comitology proposals welcome– Additional regional work must have clear value-added– Don’t see value debating interpretation of minimum requirements of
third package
• Door still open for more ambitious proposals from TSOs
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