E05-PC-05: Guidelines for Good Practice on Balancing 2005

ERGEG Public Consultation 2005/07/18 - 2005/09/26

Background

On 18th July 2005, the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG) launched a public consultation on Gas Balancing. This document:

  • explores issues with existing gas balancing regimes including access to flexibility, poor information flows and problems which may exist in the design of existing balancing regimes
  • reviews and suggest some improvements to the existing CEER gas balancing principles to try to overcome these problems and to ensure consistency with the draft Gas Regulation.

Regulators (CEER) had already published gas balancing principles in September 2003, which were intended to promote competition and liquidity in the European gas market. Further work has now been undertaken by regulators to better understand how differences in balancing rules may act to distort trade between Member States.

ERGEG invites stakeholders to comment on issues raised in this paper and in particular on the suggested changes to the CEER existing gas balancing principles and the key questions summarised in Annex 1.

Responses should be received by 26th September 2005 and sent by email to: gasbalancing@ergeg.org

Any question to this document should in the first instance be directed to:

Mrs Una Shortall
Email: una.shortall@ceer-eu.org
Tel. +32 2 788 73 30
Fax +32 2 788 73 50 

Consultation Documents

E05-PC-05-01
Discussion Paper For Public Consultation

E06-GFG-17-03 / E05-PC-05-19
Conclusions Paper: Gas Balancing

Public Responses

E05-PC-05-02
BP Gas, Power & Renewables

E05-PC-05-03
CEDEC

E05-PC-05-04
Centrica

E05-PC-05-05
Chemical Industries Association (CIA)

E05-PC-05-06
EFET

E05-PC-05-07
ENEL

E05-PC-05-08
Eurelectric

E05-PC-05-09
Eurogas

E05-PC-05-10
Exxon Mobile

E05-PC-05-11
Fachverband der Gas- und Wärmeversorgungsunternehmungen

E05-PC-05-12
GEODE

E05-PC-05-13
GTE

E05-PC-05-14
International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (IFIEC)

E05-PC-05-15
Merrill Lynch

E05-PC-05-16
International Association of Oil- and Gas Producers (OGP)

E05-PC-05-17
PLURIGAS

E05-PC-05-18
Shell

E05-PC-05-18
Shell (Cover Letter)