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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

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

1) See Annex A

2) Sheets LNG, Storage and Transmission, “Advanced” in column I