Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan GRIP 2017

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3.2.2 MARKET PLAYERS

Elering AS is the Estonian gas Transmission System Operator (TSO). The gas trans- mission system was unbundled from sales company in 2015 and since then Elering has the system responsibility and other TSO duties. Since the unbundling of TSO, the number of gas sales companies has increased rapidly. Presently there are six Balance Responsible Parties with a balance agree- ment with Elering: \\ Baltic Energy Partners OÜ \\ Scener OÜ \\ Eesti Energia AS \\ Alexela Energia AS \\ Eesti Gaas AS \\ Electrum Eesti OÜ An important development since beginning of 2015 is gas imported from Lithuania. About 20% of all gas consumption in 2015 was imported from Lithuania, through Latvia, which is a major shift from 100% Russian imports in the previous years. There are two ongoing LNG terminal development projects in Estonia, which are in- cluded in the 2  nd PCI list. The projects are Paldiski and Tallinn LNG terminals, which are promoted by Balti Gaas OÜ and Vopak E.O.S. AS, respectively. There are over twenty distribution grid companies operating in Estonia. The largest of the distribution companies is AS Gaasivõrgud.

BEMIP Gas Regional Investment Plan 2017 |

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