1. Gas Regional Initiatives
Walter Boltz,
BoR Vice-Chair
27th BoR, 16 April 2013
TITRE

2. Background - Priority Gas corridors
EIP
Background - Priority Gas corridors
NSI West - North-South gas interconnections in Western Europe: BE, FR, DE, ES, IE, IT, LU, MT, NL, PT, UK
NSI East - North-South gas interconnections in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe: AT, BG, CY, CZ, DE, GR, HU, IT, PL, RO, SK, SI
Southern Gas Corridor ("SGC"): AT, BG, CZ, CY, FR , DE, GR, HU, IT, PL, RO, SK, SI
Separate Working Group dealing with the selection of PCI in the Southern Gas Corridor: Geographical scope different from NSI East as Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland and Slovakia are not involved in the NSI East + strong external dimension
Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan in gas ("BEMIP Gas"): DK, EE, FI, DE, LT, LI, PL, SE

3. Priority Gas corridors
BEMIP
SE, UK
North South gas interconnections in Western Europe
North South gas interconnections in Central Eastern and South Europe
Southern Gas Corridor « SGC »
Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan in gas

4. GRI

5. GRI Within GRI projects have different geographical coverage
growing complexity
changing requirements for coordination and reporting
Bilateral projects: e.g. IT/AT bundled capacity allocation (CAM pilot, participation at PRISMA)  a sub-regional bilateral project which is part of a cross-regional project
Multilateral sub-regional projects: e.g. CEETR
Regional projects: e.g. CAM - coordinated auction in the whole South Gas Region
Cross-regional projects: PRISMA
Overlapping projects: e.g. market integration projects in SSE: CEETR and proposal for Visegrad 4 project

6. GRIPs regions
Based on an analysis of transmission system interconnections and operation, as well as infrastructure development needs, the ENTSOG TSOs agreed on 6 regional groupings, in some cases overlapping, to develop the first GRIPs:
North-West: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Republic of Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom
South: Spain, Portugal, France
North-South Central Eastern Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia
BEMIP: Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden
Southern Corridor: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
South-North Corridor: France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland

7. GRIPs regions North South CEE North West BEMIP Southern Corridor South
South-North Corridor
Southern Corridor

8. Comparison GRI EIP GRIPs North-West:
BE, DK, FR, DE, IE, GB, SE, LU, NL, (NO-obs.)
NSI West:
BE, FR, DE, ES, IE, IT, LU, MT, NL, PT, UK
North-West: BE, DK, FR, DE, IE, LU, NL, SE, UK
South: ES, PT, FR
SSE: AT, BG, CY, CZ, GR, HU, IT, PL, RO, SK, SI
NSI East: AT, BG, CY, CZ, DE, GR, HU, IT, PL, RO, SK, SI
North-South CEE: AT, BG, Croatia, CZ, DE, HU, PL, RO, SK
SGC: AT, BG, CZ, CY, FR , DE, GR, HU, IT, PL, RO, SK, SI
Southern Corridor: AT, BG, Croatia, GR, HU, IT, RO, SK, SI
South-North Corridor: FR, DE, IT, CH
BEMIP: EE, DK, FI, DE, LT, LI, PL, SE
BEMIP: EE, DK, FI, LT, LI, PL, SE

9. Conclusions
We need to reassess and optimise the structure of all different regional groupings and reassess their usefulness and overlaps
This needs to be discussed and coordinated with the Commission and stakeholders

10. Thank you for your attention