ENTSOG Southern Corridor (SC) Gas Regional Investment Plan (GRIP) 2014-2023 / Main Report

7.3.2.4 Mediterranean Region 2 weeks Uniform Risk, other Average Winter Demand

This scenario describes the Average Daily Demand on a sustained 2-week cold event in the Mediterranean Region, while the other Regions of EU experience an Average Winter demand. The demand in this situation is lower than in the one-day Design Case or Uniform Risk situations. On the other hand, because of a 2 weeks period of sustained high demand, on the last day of this period, there is less gas in stock hence the withdrawal capacities of the storages are also lower than in the cor- responding 1 day scenarios. For this reason, the northern countries of the Region, that depend more on storages, have in some cases a lower remaining flexibility. The reduction in flexibility is, as expected, lower in Romania and higher in Italy, in comparison with the scenario of paragraph 7.3.2.3. The situation improves: \\ in Italy, in 2018, with several non-FID and non-PCI LNG and UGS projects \\ in Greece, in 2018, with the commissioning of the FID extension of the Revythoussa LNG terminal. In Hungary and Slovenia the remaining flexibility is reduced in 2023 as a result of the increasing demand, the decreasing national production (in Hungary) and the re- duced deliverability of the UGS. It is increased again, first with the implementation of the IGB, which reduces the need for gas supply to Serbia and Romania through Hungary, then with the implementation of IAP which increases the supply to Slove- nia and finally with the remaining PCI projects which include the Romania-Hunga- ry-Austria transmission corridor.

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Southern Corridor GRIP 2014–2023