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Within the following month there will be several new developments concerning capacity management. In order to keep you up to date, here you will find the latest news from your ONTRAS capacity marketing team.
23.08.2011
Nearly 40 transport customers have joined the 2011 ONTRAS customer meeting today in Leipzig. Main topics where the new regulatory framework, new rules for capacity marketing and products, new developments at ONTRAS and news from GATRAC, the Czech-German platform für cross border gas transport.
Please find the details in our download presentations:
- Regulatory framework conditions
- Capacity-allocation procedures and platforms
- ONTRAS capacity products from 1 October 2011
- Customer-billing processes - What remains, what will change?
- GATRAC: Products for cross border gas transports between Germany and Czech Republic
01.08.2011
Specifics of capacity booking until October 2011
We would like to inform you about the specifics of our current market area cooperation platform www.marktgebiete.com during the transition period until the upcoming primary capacity platform TRAC-X primary goes online.
The adjustment process in our IT systems requires modifying the booking possibilities on our market area cooperation platform. Therefore, from
- 1st August 2011 capacity bookings are only available on www.marktgebiete.com for contract durations up to the 1st October 2011.
- Capacity contracts (FCFS or purchase in an auction) with a contract period starting from 1st October 2011, 6:00 a.m. are exclusively bookable on TRAC-X primary with the launch of this platform.
- TRAC-X primary will inform you about the exact date for the booking of various capacity products on their platform.
Please consider these dates for planning your capacity booking on the corresponding capacity platforms.
04.07.2011
Increase of capacity at the interconnection point Lasów
ONTRAS will increase the technical and marketable capacity at the interconnection point Lasów.
Currently, ONTRAS has a technical capacity at Lasów exit of 1.427.200 kWh/h. As of 01.01.2012, ONTRAS will increase the technical capacity at Lasów exit by 579.800 kWh/h to overall 2.007.000 kWh/h.
Due to §14 (1) GasNZV, a part of the technical capacity will be reserved for short and medium term capacity. 35 % of the technical capacity is reserved for medium term capacity (2 – 4 years ahead) and 20 % of the technical capacity is reserved for short term capacity (< 2 years). Therefore the marketable capacities will be: 100% for the next two years, 80% for Y+2 until Y+4 (i.e. for 01.10.2014 to 01.10.2015) and 65% for Y+4 until unlimited from 01.10.2015 on. ONTRAS is obliged to release the marketable capacity in steps.
According to §12 GasNZV the new established primary capacity platform “TRAC-X primary” will start on 01.08.2011. On this platform the transport customers will be able to participate at auctions for capacities at cross-border interconnection points and market-area-border interconnection points, as §13 GasNZV demands.
At exit Lasów which is the cross border interconnection point from ONTRAS to GAZ-SYSTEM, the capacity allocation procedure will in future occur on TRAC-X primary as followed:
- Auction for firm capacities
- FCFS for interruptible capacities
As of 01.10.2011 ONTRAS has the obligation to offer capacity products on the following basis:
yearly (start 01.10.2011), quarterly (start 01.01.2012, 01.04. 2012, 01.07.2012, 01.10. 2012) and monthly (1st of a month) as well as on day-ahead basis.
The additional capacity will only be marketed within the new regulatory framework, starting with the first auction of quarter products on 16.08.2011. This marketing approach has been agreed with the German Regulatory Authority (Bundesnetzagentur).
- Capacity increase at IP Lasow: Allocation procedure of ONTRAS (presentation)
- More information you will also find at the website of Gaz System.