ENTSOG Gas Regional Investment Plan South 2017

Gas Regional Investment Plan of the South Region 2017 |

Preamble

The GRIP South (Gas Regional Investment Plan of the

South Region) is produced by the Transmission System

Operators of the South Region, which covers France,

Portugal and Spain.

Promotion of regional cooperation arises from the requirement for Member States

and regulatory authorities to “cooperate with each other for the purpose of integrating

their national markets at one and more regional levels” established in Article 7 of the

European Directive 2009/73/EC. This requirement is further detailed in Article 12 of

Regulation 715/2009, since “transmission system operators shall establish regional

cooperation within ENTSO for Gas [...] they shall publish a regional investment plan

every two years”.

In this context, the five TSOs of the South Region (Enagás, GRTgaz, Reganosa, REN

and TIGF) have shared common efforts in the elaboration of this Gas Regional

Investment Plan (GRIP South 2017), which is the third version of the GRIP since its

first edition published in 2011.

The Gas Regional Investment Plan aims to provide a regional zoom of ENTSOG

Ten-Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP 2017) which has been published on

28 April 2017, and is available at the following link:

Joint scenario development process was established between ENTSO-s and,

furthermore, an alignment between TYNDP and GRIP, guaranteeing a joint and

coordinated development of both documents.

In this sense, the GRIP South provides complementary analysis of the gas system

focus on Transmission, UGS and LNG Terminals projects, additional analysis of the

gas system and of the infrastructures which remedy the various issues at regional

level.

This GRIP South takes on added significance since it must anticipate and take into

account the upcoming changes related to energy transition. Changes are coming, as

countries have committed to reduce CO ² emissions following the targets set at the

Paris COP21. European gas infrastructures have a key role in achieving those

ambitions. Therefore, the TYNDP 2017 and this GRIP South take in consideration

the different scenarios that can be drawn from them.

Transmissions System Operators of the Region wish that this document will provide

useful information to all stakeholders and will support fruitful discussions when

assessing the ability of investment projects to answer the regional market needs.