ENTSOG Annual Report 2016

ENTSOG TRANSPARENCY PLATFORM (TP)

ENTSOG’s Transparency Platform (TP) provides technical and commercial data on the gas trans- mission systems, which includes interconnection points and storage connections, LNG facilities, distribution networks, final consumers and production facilities. The current version of ENTSOG TP was launched on 1 October 2014. It was developed with the aim of improving transparency, user friendliness and data publication capabilities. It is a powerful tool providing the means for gas TSOs to fulfil their data publication obligations (see Chapter 3, Annex I, Regulation (EU) No 715/2009). ENTSOG received strong support from many stakeholders with regard to TP function- ality and the information provided therein.

Link to the Transparency Platform: https://transparency.entsog.eu/

Released Functionalities and Improvements During 2016

\\ To improve TP performance and response times, the database was optimised.

\\ To provide practical information on how to use the TP and its functionalities, a TP User Manual was published.

\\ To facilitate the work of TP users, export of data in *.xlsx format was added to the list of downloadable formats.

Additional information about the export status was also added to give users a better understand- ing of the export process details such as: elapsed time, querying, idle, whether the export was successful, no data available, and cancelled due to time-out.

\\ The templates for the export files were improved for more user-friendliness, e. g., the date and time formats were aligned and redundant parameters were removed.

\\ The Operator section was updated with a link to TSOs’ websites, where users can find hourly gas quality publications. This was done within the scope of implementing Art. 16 INT NC.

\\ Hourly publication of physical data flow: On top of the requirements already laid out in the regulation, ENTSOG has decided to provide further information to the market by publishing hourly physical flows at all cross-border interconnection points independently from balancing regimes etc. \\ Periodisation of capacity and interruptions data: In order to improve how stakeholders utilise indicators for Capacity and Interruption data, a new functionality was added that allows the user to display the data in a periodised or compact manner

–– Periodised manner – display of a single value per gas day –– Compact manner – display of variable time periods with constant capacity values  1)

\\ In order to display the tariffs so that they can be compared with each other, the list of allowed units for tariffs was modified from only allowing currency to now allowing currency per energy unit.

\\ Introduction of a question form to the TP Help section to facilitate the communication be- tween TP users and the, ENTSOG team and TSOs.

1) Changes related to daylight savings mean that a new value will also be displayed in March and October for TSOs with hourly capacity regimes.

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ENTSOG Annual Report 2016

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