ENTSOG TYNDP 2017 - Main Report

1.1 A strengthened cooperation with stakeholders The TYNDP is developed for a wide range of stake­ holders. For this reason, the dialog, transparent infor- mation and engagement with all kinds of stakeholders is a fundamental element of developing the TYNDP.

AN IN-DEPTH STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

For TYNDP 2017, from January 2016 to May 2016, ENTSOG organised in close cooperation with the Commission and the Agency: \\ A kick-off workshop, where the Commission and Agency provided their feed- back on TYNDP 2015 along with their recommendations for TYNDP 2017, and ENTSOG presented the foreseen directions for improvement in TYNDP 2017 \\ Five full-day Stakeholder Joint Working Sessions (SJWS) to inform and get feed- back from stakeholders on all building blocks of TYNDP: projects collection process, consideration of projects in the assessment, scenario storylines, sup- ply potentials, modelling and outputs \\ A concluding workshop to present the TYNDP final concept as well as how the stakeholder feedback had been taken into account. To enable a wide range of participation, ENTSOG invited all interested stakeholders to contribute (promoters, NRAs and Member States representatives, associations, NGOs…). To facilitate participation and engagement, the dates were announced well in advance (in December 2015 for all SJWS), the supporting material was pub- lished ahead of the SJWS, the minutes were made available afterwards and two of the events were organised in Vienna and Ljubljana respectively in order to increase geographical coverage and accessibility to these events. The stakeholder engagement process has proved to be efficient and valuable as on average 40 people have participated to the SJWS and workshops, with a number of elements that have been improved based on stakeholder feedback. This has includ- ed collecting TSOs’ assumptions for the demand data provided along the different scenarios, adopting a “tomorrow as today” approach for supply flexibility in 2017 and improving the modelling of LNG terminals.

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Ten-Year Network Development Plan 2017 Main Report