Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan GRIP 2017

Despite the fact that gas consumption in the region is expected to increase, the fore- casted changes should be in line with the EU’s climate policy, as major increases will be for the substitution of much more polluting fuels – coal for electricity produc- tion and district heating in Poland and oil products for bunkering purposes. Anoth- er growing tendency in the overall region is that the gas is being used increasingly as a back-up fuel for renewables based production of heat and electricity. In comparison with the second edition, this GRIP maintains the same framework, providing a description of the region’s gas markets, development in the offgrid area and including analysis of expected developments of grid-related gas demand and supply, and evaluating the potential contribution of infrastructure projects to these developments. The document provides an update of regional initiatives in both the Eastern and Western Baltic regions. The results of the analysis accomplished by ENTSOG focused on modelling gas supply flows in several disruption cases in the region are provided. This GRIP presents a detailed analysis of the impact of the enlisted gas infrastruc- ture projects on the development of the region’s gas market. The information on the projects proposed herein, including third-party projects, of the countries belonging to the BEMIP region is provided in the Annex.

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