Completion Incremental Capacity Process 2019-2021

The project proposal contains measures in the German market area - Trading Hub Europe - that follow from a demand indication from the market for additional transport capacity between THE and TTF. On the Dutch side of the border, GTS can meet the aforementioned demand with existing capacity. The project proposal therefore does not contain any investments in the GTS network.

Parallel to the Incremental Capacity Process 2019-2021, scenarios have been developed for the German Network Development Plan 2020 (hereinafter: NEP). These scenarios show a situation in which the transport capacities from Germany required for the security of supply in the Netherlands are at stake. Therefore, additional capacity of 12 GWh / h on the virtual interconnection point (VIP) THE-TTF-H has been added to the concept NEP. The draft NEP was consulted in the market by the BNetzA on 19 March 2021.

The consultation did not lead to any changes to the NEP. The NEP was then finalized on April 21, 2021. This means there is an obligation for the German TSOs to invest to make this capacity available. The additional capacity of 12 GWh / h from Germany to the Netherlands exceeds the capacity of 10.7 GWh / h that was requested in the demand indication of the Incremental Capacity Process 2019-2021. Therefore, no additional measures are needed to make the requested capacity available.

GTS, Gasunie Deutschland, OGE and GASCADE are therefore withdrawing the project proposal that they submitted to BNetzA and ACM on 1 November 2020 as part of the Incremental Capacity Process 2019-2021.

From the perspective of the TSOs involved, the Incremental Capacity Process 2019-2021 has thus been completed.

A statement by the joint TSOs can be found here.