ENTSOG GRIP South - Main Report

5.3 Market Consultationand

OtherMeans to IdentifyMarket Needs in theSouthRegion

The infrastructure projects here presented have been updated during summer 2013 by ENTSOG. In the SouthRegion, manymarket consultations have been organized to develop cross border capacities for thepast few years. Since2005, TSOs of theSouthRe- gion have launched consultations and binding re- quests for additional capacities with each neighbour- ing TSO: \\ The first one, in 2005, led to the creation of new entry capacity from Germany, growing from 120GWh/d in 2008 to 620GWh/d in2009. \\ After two consultations organized in 2009 and 2010, cross border capacities with Spain will be enhanced in2013 at Larrau and in 2015 at Biria- tou, inbothdirections as described inFigure 5.2. \\ In order to consolidate the integration of the French, Belgian and North European markets, Fluxys Belgium and GRTgaz have completed two consultations together, one in 2010 and the other in 2011. Both TSOs will develop their transmission networks accordingly: –– capacity fromBelgium to Francewill be increased in 2013 at Taisnières, \\ The consultation conducted jointly by GRTgaz andFluxSwiss in2012 to increase capacity out of Switzerland towards Franceby 2016–2018didn’t enable to develop entry capacity to France. GRT- gaz and FluxSwiss are now working on a new product that would require less investment and would better fit market need. This new capacity could be commissioned at the earliest in 2017, provided this requirement is confirmed in 2014. \\ The consultation conducted jointly in 2012 and 2013 by GRTgaz and CREOS Luxembourg in or- der to increaseFrance’s interconnectioncapacity to- wards Luxembourg failed to confirm the interest of market operators in thecapacityproposed.Howev- er, theproject couldgoahead if Luxembourgcon- firmed its interest witha view to securing its supply. \\ Havingbeen requestedby several shippers in the past, the increase in exit capacity out of France into Italy via Switzerland is subject to the feasibili- ty of increasing capacity inSwitzerland. In light of the uncertainties concerning the latter point and theperiod fromcontract todeliveryof suchworks, the date of commissioning of such capacity is planned for the end of the ten year plan. –– and a new interconnectionpoint will be created in 2015 at Veurne to provide non- odorised gas from the newDunkirk LNG Terminal to theBelgian border.

Biriatou: 2Gm3/y (2015)

Larrau: 5,5Gm3/y (2013)

Figure 5.2: Capacity between France and Spain after developing the FID projects

In addition to these market consultations, many pro- jects including core network developments are initiat- ed by large import projects, in particular LNG Termi- nals, by large storage projects, or by the evolution of theFrenchmarket design suchas theexpectedmerg- er of gas hubs. In Portugal, theNG projects are approved by the Por- tugueseGovernment after theconsultationof theNRA (ERSE). In spiteof not beingmandatory tohaveamar- ket consultation, during the year of 2013, theNational Plan (TYNDP) for the period2014–2023was put un- der a public consultation process for a period of 30 days. With this procedure, themarket has the oppor- tunity to comment on all relevant projects included in theNational Plan (TYNDP), both the corenetworkde- velopment projects and also the cross-border inter- connection projects.

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