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6.4 Energy System-wide costs-benefits analysis of Advanced Projects

The previous section provided a thorough analysis of what the current infrastructure, complemented with FID projects, already achieves. It concludes that the low gas infrastructure level already offers a high resilience and market integration. Nevertheless, some remaining needs can subsist in specific areas in order to achieve the European internal energy market. These needs persist on the long run while taking into account the evolution of the gas demand pattern to achieve the European energy and climate targets. This section therefore assesses the overall further impact of the projects having an advanced status, by comparing the results of the Advanced infrastructure level  1) to those of the Low infrastructure level. The projects of advanced status are defined as the ones that are planned to be commissioned until 2022 and in addition either the front-end engineering design phase or permitting phase has been started (see Infra- structure chapter for further details). The 52 projects with advanced status are listed in Table 10. They represent an overall investment cost of 16 Bn €. Although having an advanced status, some of these projects may not all materialise. Projects are taken into account in the assessment from the year after their commis- sioning. The relevant capacities for this infrastructure level can be found in the Annex D  2) .

 1) See Annex A  2) Sheets LNG, Storage and Transmission, “Advanced” in column I

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