ENTSOG South-North Corridor GRIP 2017 - Main Report

6.5 South-North Corridor

Capacities: An Overall Picture

A set of key inputs for the ENTSOG NeMo modelling tooland for the analysis in the next Chapter 7 is represented by the pipeline firm technical capacities, storage withdrawal and injection rates and LNG plant regasification characteristics. The main interconnection capacities throughout the Corridor, bridging the north and the south of the Region after completion of the reverse flow infrastructure projects described in the previous sections of this Chapter and used in the NeMo simula- tions, are schematically shown in Figure 6.6 (with values resulting from the lesser-of rule and expressed in GWh/d).

BE

178

184

DE ncg

240

563

FR nord

CH

223

100

429

623

IT

Existing

Future

Figure 6.6: Schematic representation of the South-North Corridor and related existing and future capacities in GWh/d (Source: ENTSOG Capacity Map 2016 for existing capacities, TSO promoters for future reverse flow capacities)

It should be noted that capacities from Switzerland to France at Oltingue were not taken into account in the NeMo model for TYNDP 2017 simulations but they were considered in this report (cases c and d in the section 7.3 “Assessment results”). Considering on-going discussions with market participants and the French NRA about the commercial arrangements necessary to the merger of TRS and PEG Nord, GRTgaz did not have enough visibility to confirm the firm status of this capacity and therefore preferred not to declare the capacity as firm during the data collection process of TYNDP 2017. The envisaged investments will create quasi-firm entry capacity of 100GWh/d (in competition with Taisnières and Obergailbach) to which an additional 100GWh/d of interruptible capacity may be offered. The precise condition of use of this new capacity should be decided by end July 2017 and factored accordingly in future editions of GRIP and ENTSOG TYNDP.

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