In accordance with § 19a EnWG, as of 1 January 2017, the market area conversion levy is charged nationwide. The market area conversion levy 2018 (“Marktraumumstellungsumlage”) according to Section 25 (1) GTC as well as Section 10 KoV IX amounts to 0.00070874 €/(kWh/h)/d. This corresponds to an annual amount of approx. 0.2587 €/(kWh/h)/a. The total announced nationwide costs for market area conversion amount to 104,442,367.39 € for the calendar year 2018. The actual nationwide cost for market area conversion in 2016 was 27,632,072.96 €. The market area conversion levy is charged in addition to network fees at all exit points. BEATE multipliers are not applied on the market area conversion levy.
From 16 May to 6 June 2022, Fluxys Belgium is holding a market consultation regarding the regulatory documents applicable for transmission.
As part of the consultation, transport customers are welcome to send in a statement on the proposed interconnection agreement Wallbach between 13 October 2017 and 17 December 2017.
Today, the Gas for Climate consortium published an update on biomethane production potentials in EU Member States , building on the renewed ambition of the EU to accelerate biomethane production and the advancements in technology.
The concerned German Transmission System Operators (TSOs) have jointly agreed on a possible model for the VIP-implementation („Virtual Interconnection Points“).
As from 1 April 2022 a new Virtual Interconnection Point called VIP THE-ZTP will become active, providing a single capacity service between THE and BeLux markets.
The German transmission systems operators are publishing on 27 July 2017 for the first time market demand assessment reports according to Article 26 (3) of the EU Regulation 2017/459 (Network Code on Capacity Allocation Mechanisms), determining new transport capacities to be created on the borders of the market areas GASPOOL and NCG. From 6 April to 1 June 2017 market participants had the opportunity to submit their non-binding capacity demands for market area and cross border points. The received capacity demand indications were analyzed in the published market demand assessment reports in order to determine the demand for new transport capacity. The reports are available at the FNB Gas Capacity website. The Entry and Exit Points marketed by Fluxys Deutschland (Entry Greifswald and Exit Achim II) are considered in the reports of the market area borders Russia – GASPOOL and GASPOOL – NCG.
From 30 August to 19 September 2022, Fluxys Belgium is holding a market consultation regarding the regulatory documents applicable for storage.
From 6 October to 6 December 2022, Fluxys Belgium is holding a market consultation regarding the proposal for the transmission tariffs 2024-2027.
In accordance with § 19a EnWG, as of 1 January 2017, the market area conversion levy is charged nationwide. The market area conversion levy 2018 (“Marktraumumstellungsumlage”) according to Section 25 (1) GTC as well as Section 10 KoV IX amounts to 0.00070874 €/(kWh/h)/d. This corresponds to an annual amount of approx. 0.2587 €/(kWh/h)/a. The total announced nationwide costs for market area conversion amount to 104,442,367.39 € for the calendar year 2018. The actual nationwide cost for market area conversion in 2016 was 27,632,072.96 €. The market area conversion levy is charged in addition to network fees at all exit points. BEATE multipliers are not applied on the market area conversion levy.
An application conference, organised by the Lower Saxony State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG), has been held in Brackel (Lower Saxony) in the administrative district of Harburg, marking the launch of the first phase of the energy planning permission procedure for a natural gas compressor station to expand the North European Gas Pipeline (NEL).
The concerned German Transmission System Operators (TSOs) have jointly agreed on a possible model for the VIP-implementation („Virtual Interconnection Points“)
Fluxys Deutschland now also offers capacities on NEL at the new market area interconnection point Achim II between the market areas GASPOOL and NCG.
Fluxys Deutschland has updated the “Appendix 1 to Annex 5 – Tariff information for allocation for new technical capacities” with a reduced price cap for the new technical capacities which are going to be auctioned on the European capacity platform PRISMA on March 6, 2017.
Today the North West European Transmission System Operators have published their Gas Regional Investment Plan 2017 (North West Gas Regional Investment Plan – NW GRIP 2017). Besides the update of all elements related to infrastructure development in the Region, the NW GRIP 2017 focuses on the way gas infrastructure can contribute to a sustainable energy transition and on the conversion of L-gas to H-gas in Belgium, France and Germany.
Fluxys Deutschland GmbH has published the final tariffs. They shall apply retroactively as of 01 January 2017.
The TSOs of the South-North Corridor Region have today released the third edition of their Gas Regional Investment Plan in line with Article 12(1) of the Regulation (EC) N° 715/2009. This third edition builds further on the previous editions of the SNC GRIP, while also complementing the Ten-Year Network Development Plan 2017, and has been jointly coordinated by Snam Rete Gas and Fluxys Belgium.
FluxSwiss has implemented the Reverse Flow project as planned. South-to-north physical reverse flow capacity is now available to the market on both transit routes: from Italy to France since 1 June 2018 and since 1 October 2018 from Italy to Germany as well.
As from 17 May until 30 May 2021 participate in our Subscription Window for LNG services at the Zeebrugge LNG Terminal.
As a result of the efforts to increase the availability of data towards the market, FluxSwiss has designed and published its own Electronic Data Platform.