TRANSPARENCY PLATFORM
The liberalization process aimed at creating an
internal gas market has significantly changed the
gas transmission business and increased the
need for transparency. In this respect, specific
obligations for TSOs have been introduced at
both the national and European levels.
Even though information is made available by
individual TSOs, network users may still face
difficulties when willing to transport gas across
Europe due to differences in the market models
used throughout Europe. For this reason, the
ENTSOG Transparency Platform was developed to
facilitate access to transmission networks. Among
other things, the Transparency Platform makes all
of this information available in a well-organized
manner on a single website.
The ENTSOG Transparency Platform provides
users with the requested data in three different
ways as stipulated in Annex I of Regulation (EC)
715 / 2009:
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Per relevant point;
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Per requested route of transport;
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Per responsible TSO.
Advanced search tools allow users to search by
point using the initial letters of the point, country,
TSO etc. The information includes the following
(historical / future):
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Capacities at daily granularity level
(per type and availability status)
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Balancing model and charges
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Tariffs
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Nominations and physical flows per day
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Interruptions per type of offered capacity
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Types of contracts offered
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Gas quality per day
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CMP-related data (unsuccessful requests,
cleared and reserved prices, unavailable
firm capacities and capacities made availa-
ble through implementation of CMP tools)
When searching for a route, the generated re-
sponse gives the user an overview of the available
capacities along the route and other useful in
formation such as available contracts, applicable
tariffs, balancing rules, capacity allocation mech-
anisms as well as dynamic data such as flows,
nominations, renominations and interruptions.
Furthermore, two additional tools enhance the
user-friendliness of the platform:
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Data can be searched in a visual manner
using an interactive map containing the
relevant points and main infrastructure of
the European map
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Data can be searched through links to
individual TSO websites dedicated to trans-
parency information thus offering a useful
navigation tool for gas network users.
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