ENTSOG GRIP SNC 2014-2023

6.3 Projects Description

We are starting projects description from the current situation, including some steps already undertaken in the last few years. Snam Rete Gas has already begun investments in the Italian network to enable physical flows from east to west in Northern Italy and, consequently, south to north flows from the Italian-Swiss border toward Europe. For the TENP and Transitgas systems, investments to make the infrastructure bi- directional are in an advanced planning stage and could create not only physical south to north capacity, but also additional capacity from Germany to Belgium. In December 2012, Fluxys TENP and FluxSwiss in association with Fluxys Belgium and Snam Rete Gas launched a coordinated market process for interested shippers to book long-term gas transmission capacity from the Italian trading point PSV through Switzerland to the NCG and GASPOOL trading points and/or the ZTP trad- ing point in Belgium, with regard to the new capacity some of the TSOs are building or will build in their respective transmission systems. The joint approach of the four TSOs resulted in the Memorandum of Understanding agreed between parent companies Snam and Fluxys in August 2012 for developing and marketing reverse flow capacities from south to north between Italy and the UK. On the same year, in June 2012, Fluxswiss and GRTgaz, in close cooperation with Snam, launched a joint consultation to interconnect PSV and PEG Nord with a reverse flow at Oltingue. Shippers showed strong interest in south to north capacity, expressing however the need to postpone binding commitments to a later stage, considering also the current uncertainty about gas demand evolution in Europe and the need to solve a

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South-North Corridor GRIP 2014–2023