ENTSOG GRIP South - Main Report

6.6 Analyses

Basedon2014–2022 IPsCapacitySubscription inSouthRegion TSOs, cooperating in developing this GRIP, understand our position as developers of transmission projects which can contribute to get the internal EuropeanMarket and satisfymarket needs as well as to reach the European energy policies. The South Gas Regional InitiativeWork Plan 2011–2014 establishes that the final goal onCAM for 2014wouldbehaving inplace joint coordinatedcapacity allocation mechanisms for the allocation of cross-border capacity in all the interconnections between the balancing zones in the region. To reach this objective, Enagás, REN, TIGF and GRTgaz committed to develop a joint allocation procedure inspired on ENTSOG’s Network Code (NC) on Capacity AllocationManagement (CAM) to allo- cate bundled products on both sides of the border in a coordinatedmechanism. Waiting for the total implementation of NC-CAM at Regional level, this sub-chapter will show the “current” cross-border interconnection point’s capacity booked from 2014 to 2022 in Regional IPs. This information, taking into account the hetero­ geneity of the regulatory treatment of the booking of capacity in each of the coun- tries of the region, canbe considered as apre-signal ofmarket needs and expected utilization of Regional GasNetwork in order to define future developments.

6.6.1. CapacitySubscriptionat IPs betweenPortugalandSpain

FromOctober 2012, bundledCross-border capacity at the physical interconnection points, Badajoz-Campo Maior and Tuy-Valença do Minho is marketed in the VIP (Virtual InterconnectionPoint) betweenPortugal and Spain. According toPortuguese regulatory treatment, themaximum contract period is one year, so the capacity subscription at the interconnectionpoints betweenPortugal to Spain from2014 to 2022 doesn’t reflect the forecasted activity at these IPs. No subscription graphs have been included due to no relevant data is available re- garding the long term capacity subscription at the interconnection points between Portugal toSpainandno fruitful conclusionscanbe taken in the long termbasedon the data available.

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