Glossary

Unique code for a balancing group, which is assigned by the balancing group network operator to the respective balancing group manager, and which serves to identify the nominations or renominations of gas quantities

A market area-wide network operator, or a third party, with whom a balancing group can be established, and with whom a balancing group contract can be concluded

Gas produced by fermentation of biomass in the absence of oxygen

Biogas or other gaseous biomass processed to natural gas quality (DVGW G 260) and input into the gas grid

Maximum hourly flow rate at an entry or exit point within a particular period of time, which is expressed according to the network operator's specifications in m³/h (standard volume) or kWh/h

A final user (e.g. power station, industry), a downstream network operator, a gas reservoir operator, a supplier of biogas/hydrogen gas/synthetic methane having or applying for a direct connection with the ONTRAS grid

Any end consumer who uses a connection to the low-pressure, medium-pressure, or high-pressure network for the extraction of gas, within the framework of a contract or connection usage relationship as per §3 of the Ordinance on General Conditions for Network Connection and its Usage for Gas Supply at Low Pressure (Low Pressure Connection Ordinance NDAV) of 01/11/2006.

The term encompasses the entry contract, exit contract, and balancing group contract

Connecting network interconnection point between the networks of two contiguous countries

Temperature determined according to the relevant climate zone as per DIN EN 12831 supplementary sheet 1, table 1a

Distribution system operators are operators of a network for retail supply

The network operator of an entry point with whom the transport customer concludes an entry contract

A point within a market area, at which gas can be transferred to a network operator's network, including transfer at import points, domestic sources, storage facilities, mixing plants and conversion plants

The network operator of an exit point with whom the transport customer concludes an exit contract

A point within a market area, at which a transport customer can extract gas from a network operator's network at market area borders, for the purpose of storage, or in order to supply end consumers. If the exit network operator is a local distribution network operator, the exit point is also the metering point

First committed, first served: the procedure for award of capacities at grid entry and exit points (not including firm primary capacities at market and cross-border transfer points)

Capacity which can be booked by the transport customer on a fixed basis as per §4 of the network access conditions

Period from 1 October, 6 am of a calendar year, to 1 October, 6 am of the following calendar year

A measuring and regulating installation for input of natural or bio-natural gas into the gas grid (individual components: gas cleaning and drying, measurement on arrival, conditioning, compression, measurement at input, input)

Capacity which can be booked by a transport customer on an interruptible basis as per §4 of the network access conditions the use of interruptible capacity can be interrupted by the network operator as per §39 of the network access conditions

Contractual agreement between transport customer and network operator regarding the commitment to provide a specific gas flow at an entry or exit point In particular, load flow commitments include entry commitments

A combination of (partial) networks at www.gasnetzkarte.de you can see which individual (partial) networks belong to which market areas

A grid junction linking market areas

A balancing group network operator in a market area is responsible for management of balancing groups and regulating energy and for operation of the virtual trading point

(Partial) network(s) belonging to the market area-wide network operator(s)

A market area's network operator(s) named as market area-wide network operator(s) upon creation of the market area, or third parties appointed by such operators, to whom rights and duties of the market area-wide network operator(s) are transferred in whole or in part

Possibility of storing gas by compression in transmission and distribution networks in so far as the compression does not take place for network control

A point in a grid where a pipeline, another network, a final consumer, a reservoir operator or a biogas production plant is or could be connected to the ONTRAS grid

Regional Booking Platform is the hungarian capacity booking platform, where the capacities at network point GCP GAZ-SYSTEM/ONTRAS will be marketed starting on 06.07.2020.

A written application to a grid operator a direct grid connection submitted by a final consumer (e.g. power station, industry), another network operator, a gas reservoir operator or a biogas supplier

The term encompasses entry network operators, exit network operators and balancing group network operators

Declaration of the gas quantities to be transported within defined timeframes, as per §22 of the network access conditions and as per the Operating Manual, appendix NZB 2 of the network access conditions

The maximum power utilization in the design state of the network set at an entry or exit of a local distribution system

Subsequent modification of the nomination

Account in a balancing group for assignation of entry and exit quantities to transport customers

Technical parameters which are necessary for the booking and for the gas transport, in particular: pressure, gas quality, measurement, allocation

A balancing group's non-bookable exit point, via which gas is transferred to another balancing group

A balancing group's non-bookable entry point, via which gas is transferred from another balancing group

A virtual point at which gas can be traded within the market area after entry and before exit. The virtual trading point is not assigned to a physical entry or exit point, and enables buyers and sellers to buy and sell gas without capacity booking

Days from Monday to Friday, except for public holidays, 24/12, and 31/12, whereby a public holiday in an individual federal state is considered a nationwide public holiday unless stated otherwise in the stipulations of 'Business processes upon switch of gas supplier (GeLi Gas)'