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Final gas demand
The TSO submitted the inputs for the different scenarios. The estimation of gas de-
mand considers realistic growth of consumption in the range from 0.5 to 2%/year
up to the year 2025 and remain stable or slowly decrease (depending on the sce-
nario) after the year 2026 within the range 0.5%/year.
Power generation – general methodology
The prediction of natural gas demand for power generation was done starting with
existing position of natural gas on the Slovenian electricity market and assuming one
additional CHP power plant to be put into operation in the year 2019. In the current
transition period the future development and role of natural gas on the Slovenian
electricity market is difficult to predict, other possible power generation projects
were not included yet – a more reliable estimation is expected to be available for next
development plan.
SK (SLOVAKIA)
Final gas demand
The TSO submitted the inputs for the different scenarios.
Future final demand data is predicted up to the end of 2025, therefore only this set
of demand could be provided. The TSO has no information on non-network demand.
Power generation – general methodology
The TSO submitted the inputs for the general methodology.
Data for gas demand for power generation is predicted up to the end of 2025. Until
that moment, the TSO proposes to use own data. From 2026 onwards the thermal
gap data is used.
UK (UNITED KINGDOM)
Final gas demand
The TSO submitted the inputs for the different scenarios. No further comments have
been reported.
Power generation – general methodology
The TSO submitted the inputs for the general methodology.
For all scenarios the ENTSO-E data is the closest to TSO data for yearly average fig-
ures. For Slow Progression and Blue Transition the data is quite close to this TSO data.
For Green Evolution, all the other sources are significantly above TSO data. This
would have been based on Future Energy Scenarios 2014 whereas FES 2015 is
used for the TYNDP 2017 submission.
While, for the purposes of consistency the TSO would be happy to use the ENTSO-E
data, this would result in large inconsistencies with the peak data. For some years
the annual is over twice the size of the 2 week peak figure.
For this reason the only option is to use TSO data for Green Evolution.
For the 2 week and the peak data using TSO data is appropriate due to the differ-
ences in the method of calculating these elements.