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Ten-Year Network Development Plan 2017 Main Report
F.4.3 INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure levels
The status of projects are used to define three infrastructure levels. A fourth
infrastructure level is considered in relation to the previous PCI list. These infrastruc-
ture levels are used in the TYNDP for the assessment of the European gas system.
More information is available in the Infrastructure chapter, section 4.4.
Existing capacities
Transmission capacities collected from TSOs, based on their expertise regarding the
hydraulic behaviour of their network. They are the firm capacities as of 1 January
2016. The data is available in Annex D.
Project capacities
Planned capacities to be developed by the projects. They are collected from the Pro-
moters.
Project data
Provided by projects promoters on ENTSOG’s Project Data Portal, during May 2016.
For further information, refer to Annex A.
Lesser-of-rule
Where two interconnected capacities are reported with different values, the lowest
capacity is considered for the calculations.
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