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Gas Regional Investment Plan of the South Region 2017
ASSESSMENT OF THE SOUTH REGION
According to the results of the Network Assessment developed in the TYNDP,
security of supply is guaranteed in the South Region. Gas network in this Region is
resilient enough to face wide variations of demand, and is able to re-route supply in
case of a supply route disruption, bringing additional gas through LNG terminals and
underground storage facilities. The only lack of robustness in the gas network is
related to the N-1 indicator for Portugal, since the Portuguese gas system is not able
to cover the supply in these circumstances for all the scenarios. However, the
commissioning of the 3
rd
Interconnection between Spain and Portugal would solve
this problem.
Regarding the competition and, more precisely, the access to different supply
sources, differences are seen between the Iberian Peninsula and France: in 2017,
France has significant access to four supply sources (Russia, Norway, LNG and
European national production), while the Iberian Peninsula has significant access to
two supply sources (Algeria and LNG). Nevertheless, the three countries of the
South Region would have access to five different sources after the commissioning of
the PCI infrastructure cluster (Russia, Norway, Algeria, LNG and European national
production), thus complementing the respective supply mixes of each country.
The Iberian Peninsula and South of France have been identified in ENTSOG TYNDP
2017 as areas with dependency on LNG. The dependency on LNG in the South of
France will disappear after the merger of zones in France in 2018. The dependency
of the Iberian Peninsula would be mitigated with the commissioning of PCI projects,
especially in low demand scenarios.
A great number of projects enhancing the interconnection of the countries in the
area within them and other EU countries, together with the addition of new
infrastructures and development of existing ones, such as LNG terminals or storage
facilities, have been identified in the South Region. In this sense, projects submitted
for TYNDP 2017, both FID and non-FID projects, are expected to enhance the
operation of the network, increasing interconnectivity of the countries involved,
ensuring the security of supply and granting the access to a more diversified
portfolio.
The TSOs from France, Portugal and Spain hope that this report can be useful in
terms of information and results. We encourage all the readers of the document to
contribute to the next GRIP’s edition development by actively provide their feedback
on the present one.