Transparency Project GRI NW Region Peter Plug and Pamela Taylor Madrid Forum, 28-29 May 2009

Gas Regional Initiative North West Three regional priorities to facilitate cross-border trade sound investment climate better use of capacity greater transparency Transparency project has been successful Increased TSO compliance with deliverables from 50% to 90% TSOs committed to publishing remaining 10% by December 2009 Reduction in cross-border points subject to less than three shipper rule from 35 to 20 (out of 126) Network operators, network users and regional regulators working together and achieving impressive progress

Transparency Project Project based on 2 areas of Networks users’ minimum requirements: capacity availability and gas flow information Seventeen TSOs agreed to publish daily information for seven deliverables TSOs to publish data at cross-border interconnection points except where less than 3 shipper rule applies TSOs agreed to publish by one of three milestones: May, September or December 2008

Transparency in January 2008   E.ON GT Fluxys Svenska Kraftnät RWE TNG National Grid IUK Gas-link WIN-GAS On-tras GRT gaz Energinet.dk Gas-unie DT DEP Swede-gas GRT-gaz DT GTS BBL (C1) Max technical capacity in place earlier (C2) Interruption later final (C3) Daily commercial firm and interruptible capacity (F1) Daily flow / aggregated Allocation (F2) Daily prompt allocation information (F3) Daily aggregate day-ahead nominations (F4) Historic gas flow information database April 2008 Existing before project start October 2008 no answer December 2008

Project achievements May 2009 E.ON GT Fluxys Svenska Kraftnät RWE TNG National Grid IUK Gas-link WIN-GAS Ontras GRT-gaz Energinet.dk Gasunie DT DEP Swedegas GRT-gaz DT GTS BBL (C1) Max technical capacity in place   (C2) Interruption  in place In place (C3) Daily commercial firm and interruptible capacity (F1) Daily flow / aggregated Allocation Oct 2009 March 2009 (F2) Daily prompt allocation information (F3) Daily aggregate day-ahead nominations July 2009 Dec 2009 No date (F4) Historic gas flow information database Number of IPs 22 19 1 5 8 4 3 9 6 7 2 25 3 minus rule IPs 12 TSOs report published Specific date Less than three shippers Not committed to date Not applicable

How does the project relate to European transparency? Info on network capacity and gas flows- key for new entrants Annex 3 of regulation 1775/2005 requires: Information on maximum technical capacity, total contracted and interruptible capacity and available capacity Project goes beyond existing legal requirements Requires all info on a daily instead of monthly basis Information on day-ahead shipper nominations Useful tool for implementing existing legal requirements

Need for a second phase? GRI NW regulators, transmission operators and network users are in the process of agreeing new deliverables Network users’ minimum transparency requirements New third package requirements European Commission transparency guidelines Potential 3rd package requirements for new project? Information related to system demand Information on balancing (not linepack) and gas flows Transmission operators developing a proposal… … GRI NW stakeholder group meeting on 9 June in Paris

Gas storage transparency GRI NW regulators working with Gas Storage Europe (GSE) wrote to storage operators to request early implementation of the third package- positive reaction! Address security of supply concerns ahead of winter period Updated weekly Volume of gas in storage Eight hub areas Some major storage operators missing 1 October and 30 November 2009 Updated daily Volume of gas in storage Aggregated inflows Aggregated outflows Eight hub areas Including all major storage operators

Conclusions Real wins in publishing gas flows & capacity information TSOs now 90% compliant with deliverables compared to 50% at the start of the project for capacity availability & gas flows Storage operators committing to early implementation of third package ahead of winter Next project to implement new legal requirements? New third package requirements Legally binding guidelines Urge TSOs to continuing improving transparency!

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