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This workshop focuses on recommendations for coordinated services by European TSOs to simplify grid access and enhance customer friendliness, with a common understanding of products, contract durations, lead times, and operational procedures.
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Coordination of Capacity ProductsMeinhard JanssenGTE ExCom Member GTE+ Workshop on GTE+ Work Programme 24 June 2008
Scope • Request from Madrid Forum XII to GTE • Recommendation of coordinated services, which should than be offered by European TSOs • Serve as minimum service descriptions that should at least be applied • simplifies grid access and shipping through the EU • enhances customer friendliness • Common understanding of products • Contract durations • Lead times etc. • Common understanding of applied operational procedures • Nomination • Communication • Units
Drivers • Main target group are TSO customers (e.g. shippers) • Objectives • Identification of potential for coordination • Practical value for market participants • Both feasible and implementable for TSOs • Identification of barriers for harmonisation • Priorities • Focus on customer needs (offered cross-border services) • Remove market and legal barriers and improve EU gas market (GTE+ recommendation for non-domestic services) • Sustainable coordination
Schedule 2008 • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • July • Aug • Sept • Oct • Nov • Dec Analysis of the database based on the questionnaire in 2007 Internal GTE workshop Pre-report writing Preparation of stakeholders workshop Stakeholders workshop Writing of the final report Final report publication
Evaluation process and deliverables • Evaluation Process • Three step process • Is it feasible to coordinate? • Is it possible to coordinate for the TSOs? • Is it interesting for the market to coordinate? • Cross-analysis and case studies identification of services and procedures • Internal and external workshops • Service and procedure recommendations • Deliverables • Phase 1: Analysis and recommendations report • Phase 2: Analysis and extended recommendations report • Phase 3: Impact Assessment Report
First findings, barriers and recommendations • First general findings: • Network access model are mostly P2P (non-domestic) or EE (domestic) • Most TSOs offer same shipping services • For non-domestic bookings the use of energy and volume as units are balanced 2 : 3 • Legal/regulatory barriers: • Lead times, Capacity allocation methodologies, Service durations, Access model, Booking unit) • Possible recommendations if legally implementable: • Services like Shipping periods • Operational procedures (e. g. lead times) • Nomination (and re-nom) management