ENTSOG Gas Regional Investment Plan South 2017 - Main Report

Preamble

The GRIP South (Gas Regional Investment Plan of the South Region) is produced by the Transmission System Operators of the South Region, which covers France, Portugal and Spain. Promotion of regional cooperation arises from the requirement for Member States and regulatory authorities to “cooperate with each other for the purpose of integrating their national markets at one and more regional levels” established in Article 7 of the European Directive 2009/73/EC. This requirement is further detailed in Article 12 of Regulation 715/2009, since “transmission system operators shall establish regional cooperation within ENTSO for Gas [...] they shall publish a regional investment plan every two years”. In this context, the five TSOs of the South Region (Enagás, GRTgaz, Reganosa, REN and TIGF) have shared common efforts in the elaboration of this Gas Regional Investment Plan (GRIP South 2017), which is the third version of the GRIP since its first edition published in 2011. The Gas Regional Investment Plan aims to provide a regional zoom of ENTSOG Ten-Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP 2017) which has been published on 28 April 2017, and is available at the following link: http://www.entsog.eu/publica- tions/tyndp#ENTSOG-TEN-YEAR-NETWORK-DEVELOPMENT-PLAN-2017. Joint scenario development process was established between ENTSO-s and, furthermore, an alignment between TYNDP and GRIP, guaranteeing a joint and coordinated development of both documents. In this sense, the GRIP South provides complementary analysis of the gas system focus on Transmission, UGS and LNG Terminals projects, additional analysis of the gas system and of the infrastructures which remedy the various issues at regional level. This GRIP South takes on added significance since it must anticipate and take into account the upcoming changes related to energy transition. Changes are coming, as countries have committed to reduce CO ² emissions following the targets set at the Paris COP21. European gas infrastructures have a key role in achieving those ambitions. Therefore, the TYNDP 2017 and this GRIP South take in consideration the different scenarios that can be drawn from them. Transmissions System Operators of the Region wish that this document will provide useful information to all stakeholders and will support fruitful discussions when assessing the ability of investment projects to answer the regional market needs.

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