1. GRI NW Transparency Stockholm Stakeholder Group Conference 26 November 2009 Martin Crouch Partner: European Strategy

2. 2 Progress update Storage transparency –Daily information on storage volume, inflows and outflows –Go-live 1 October –Completion 1 December 2009 Transmission transparency –Phase one completed 9 June 2009 – wrap up –Next steps for 2010

3. 3 Storage transparency Gas Storage Europe commitment for early implementation (3 months) GRI NW regulators will monitor and report on progress Example of daily update:

4. 4 GRI NW COUNTRYGermanyGreat BritainFranceDenmarkBelgiumNetherlands Storage System Operator BEB Speicher GmbH CentricaStorengyDONG StorageFluxysNAM E.ON Gas Storage GmbH SSE/Statoil Energinet.dk TAQA RWE Dea AGEDF EnergyGasunie EWE Aktiengesellschaft National Grid LNG Essent Bayerngas GmbHScottish Power VerbundnetzGas AG Petronas Exxonmobil GD GmbH RWE Gasspeicher GmbH Total Storage Current Snapshot Expected E.ON Hanse AG BCM35.524.534.9 WINGAS GmbH % of total68%86% (96%) Storage project - snapshot PublishedExpected 1 December

5. 5 Transmission phase one: status E.ON GT Fluxy s Sven ska Kraft nät RWE TNG Natio nal Grid IUK Gas- link WIN- GAS Ontras GRT- gaz Energin et.dk Gasunie DT DEP Swede gas GRT- gaz DT GTSBBL (C1) Max technical capacity in place (C2) Interruption in place In place in place (C3) Daily commercial firm and interruptible capacity in place (F1) Daily flow / aggregated Allocation in place In place in place In placein place In place (F2) Daily prompt allocation information in place (F3) Daily aggregate day-ahead nominations in place In place May 2009 - Delay Dec 2009 in place Dec 2009 (F4) Historic gas flow information database in place In place in place In place Number of IPs2219158418396721525 4 3 minus rule IPs05030003200000012 0 TSOs report publishedSpecific date Less than three shippers Not committed to date Not applicable GRTGaz published July - WINGAS published October 2009 (96% compliant)

6. 6 Transmission transparency next steps Developments since phase 1: –New third package requirements –Network users’ “minimum transparency requirements” –Expectation of European Commission’s comitology proposals Last Stakeholder group invited TSOs to bring forward proposals based on new requirements GTE+ made proposals for pan-EU implementation Debate has moved to EU level; comitology proposals welcome –Additional regional work must have clear value-added –Don’t see value debating interpretation of minimum requirements of third package Door still open for more ambitious proposals from TSOs

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