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Primary Capacity Platform PRISMA

GRTgaz Deutschland markets is firm and interruptible entry and exit capacities at market area and cross-border interconnection points via a transparent and non-discriminatory auction process on the platform primary capacity platform PRISMA. 

Booking of interruptible WD capacity

Additionally, interruptible within-day capacities may be booked through a process of overnomination. The booking of interruptible within-day capacities is only possible through overnomination, if the firm capacity with the exception of restricted allocable capacity (bFZK), at the corresponding booking point has already been completely traded or if only interruptible capacities are available for trading.

In addition, shippers can submit a nomination for a balancing group even if no capacities have been included there before.

Emergency Process for Capacity Booking Requests

In the case of technical issues with PRISMA or its connected systems, GRTgaz Deutschland offers overnomination as an emergency process for trading daily products or within-day auctions at the border and market area crossing points.

Network points that have been activated for overnomination may be found in the adjacent widget.

OVERNOMINATION

Activated network points

 

 

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Email Alerts for Overnomination

Hourly updates on the activation of overnomination enabling customers to acquire interruptible WD capacities and push notification

If desired, as soon as overnomination for interruptible capacities is possible, push email notifications are sent to you during the gas day.

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COMMERCIAL

Capacity Products

As an efficient and reliable partner in gas transport, GRTgaz Deutschland plays an innovative role in the development of new capacity products as optimised solutions for the customer. One example of this is the product DZK (Dynamically Allocable Capacity).

GRTgaz Deutschland offers the following capacity products:



Freely allocable capacity (FZK)

Freely allocable capacities allow firm transports in the whole market area as well as access to the Virtual Trading Point of NCG.

Conditionally firm freely allocable capacity (bFZK)

Conditionally firm freely allocable capacities are, in principle, both firm and freely allocable within the whole market area, and have access to the Virtual Trading Point of NCG. They only become interruptible capacities if the physical northbound flow into the system of Open Grid Europe at the stations Rimpar and Gernsheim both exceeds a particular limit, defined by Open Grid Europe, due to the current nominations within the market area, and if the forecast of the average daily temperature for the previous day at the meteorological station at Essen is above zero degrees centigrade.

Dynamically allocable capacity (DZK)

Dynamically allocable capacities (DZK) are firm capacities whose free allocation is subject to usage restrictions. DZK are firm capacities if they are used without access to the virtual trading point and exclusively for the purpose of carrying out a balanced transport between entry and exit points.

To balance your DZK capacities, you need a DZK balancing group to which one or more routes can be assigned. However, only one Exit point can be assigned to a DZK balancing group, but several Entry points. If you plan to use the reverse routes as well, you will need more DZK balancing groups depending on how many exit points you plan to use.

Point combinations (routes) offered at the virtual interconnection points (VIP):

  • Entry VIP Waidhaus-NCG to Exit VIP France-Germany
  • Entry VIP Oberkappel-NCG to Exit VIP France-Germany

In case of renomination restriction, the reverse combinations will also be offered:

  • Entry VIP France-Germany to Exit VIP Waidhaus-NCG
  • Entry VIP France-Germany to Exit VIP Oberkappel-NCG

Interruptible capacity (uFZK)

Interruptible capacities allow transport within the whole market area as well as an access to the Virtual Trading Point of NCG on an interruptible basis.

Capacity Information

Technical Yearly Capacity Overview

Information about the procedure in accordance with Article 40, Section 4 GasNZV 

More information in our GTCs 

REGISTRATION PROCESS

Step 1. Register as a shipper at PRISMA

A. Register as a company

We will need the following information from your company:  

  • EIC code
  • Company and user information

 

  • Go to the PRISMA registration page. Do not forget to select GRTgaz Deutschland as a TSO.
  • After registration on PRISMA, you will receive the required documents by email to register at GRTgaz Deutschland (see Step 3).

B. Register additional users 

Are you already a registered shipper, but require further users or need to change data?

The new user will receive a confirmation per email as soon as their registration has been approved. 

REGISTRATION PROCESS

Step 2. Register at NetConnect Germany (NCG)

  • Go to the NCG portal registration page to register 
  • Create your balancing groups at NCG. These will be sent automatically through NCG to our customer portal and to Prisma 
  • Send an email with the balancing group information to communicationtest@grtgaz-deutschland.de 

REGISTRATION PROCESS

Step 3. Register at GRTgaz Deutschland

A. Provide us with the following documents you received after your registration on PRISMA (According to our GTCs Section 2a): 

  • Company Register Extract
  • Annual financial statements of the previous three business years
  • PRISMA document “Power of Attorney to Represent the Company”

 

B. Communication test with the counterparties

Before starting the transmission, a communication test with the BGM (Balancing Group Manager) is performed in order to check the communication channels between GRTgaz Deutschland and the BGM.

C. Activation for PRISMA primary and secondary marketing / VMS and NMP

After a successful communication test, you will: 

  • be activated on PRISMA's primary and secondary platforms
  • receive via email the registration confirmation for GRTgaz Deutschland’s contract management system (VMS) as well as for the nomination portal (NMP).

Questions? Contact Smile@grtgaz-deutschland.de  

Terms and Conditions Customer Portal 

Customer Portals User Manual 

Registration Form Customer Portal 

Change Request Contact Information

CUSTOMER PORTAL

Specifically designed for our customers

VMS Portal

The VMS Portal allows our customers to enter and edit company data, balancing groups and contracts.

NMP Portal

The  Nomination Portal  (NMP) may be used to submit and review nominations in case of failure or revision of your backend system, or if your company does not own a nomination backend system.

To register, contact: Smile@grtgaz-deutschland.de

COMMUNICATION

Communication test with the counterparties

Before starting the transmission, a communication test with the balancing group manager (BGM) is performed in order to check the communication channels between GRTgaz Deutschland and the BGM. The shipper is required to contact the following email address in order to perform the communication test:

communicationtest@grtgaz-deutschland.de.

Implementation of protocol AS4

In response to the network code Interoperability and Data Exchange, the European Transmission System Operators and their counterparties who communicate electronically shall use a Europe-wide harmonized protocol (AS4) and harmonized formats (Edig@s-XML) in their communication for any document-based data exchange.

TARIFFS

Prices for transport as of 1st of January 2021

Prices for firm capacity

The prices in €/(kWh/h)/a for all entry and exit points are listed below:

 

Regulated fees Daily fees
in €/(kWh/h)/d
(indicative)		 Annual fees
in €/(kWh/h)/a
Entry    
Freely allocable capacities (FZK) 0.010329 3.77
Conditionally firm freely allocable capacities (bFZK) 0.010225 3.73
Dynamically allocable capacities (DZK) 0.009296 3.39
Exit    
Freely allocable capacities (FZK) 0.010329 3.77
Dynamically allocable capacities (DZK) 0.009296 3.39

 

 

 

 

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Prices for Interruptible Capacity

Pursuant to Art. 14, 15 NC TAR, the Bundesnetzagentur has, in its decision Az. BK9-19/612 (“MARGIT 2021”) determined the discounts for interruptible capacities at interconnection points. The methodology for the calculation of these discounts is described in chapter 5 of the MARGIT decision. For entry and exit points of GRTgaz Deutschland, it results in the following discounts:

 

Regulated Fees Discount for FZK Daily Fees
in €/(kWh/h)/d (indicative)		 Annual Fees in €/(kWh/h)/a
VIP France Germany Entry      
Annually 10% 0.009296 3.39
Quarterly 10% 0.009296 3.39
Monthly 10% 0.009296 3.39
Daily 10% 0.009296 3.39
Within-Day 10% 0.009296 3.39
VIP France Germany Exit      
Annually 10% 0.009296 3.39
Quarterly 10% 0.009296 3.39
Monthly 10% 0.009296 3.39
Daily 11% 0.009193 3.36
Within-Day 11% 0.009193 3.36

 

Regulated Fees Discount for FZK Daily Fees
in €/(kWh/h)/d (indicative)		 Annual Fees in €/(kWh/h)/a
Gernsheim Entry      
Annually 10% 0.009296 3.39
Quarterly 10% 0.009296 3.39
Monthly 11% 0.009193 3.36
Daily 11% 0.009193 3.36
Within-Day 11% 0.009193 3.36
Gernsheim Exit      
Annually 10% 0.009296 3.39
Quarterly 10% 0.009296 3.39
Monthly 10% 0.009296 3.39
Daily 10% 0.009296 3.39
Within-Day 10% 0.009296 3.39

Application of multipliers for non-yearly capacity products 

The BNetzA’s MARGIT decision provides that, in converting yearly standard capacity products into non-yearly standard capacity products (‚non-yearly products‘), a multiplier is to be applied at all interconnection points.

The fee for non-yearly products is calculated by dividing the relevant annual fee by 365 and then multiplying it with the duration of the respective product (in days) and the relevant multiplier to be identified as follows:

 

Product Multiplier
Within-day 2
Daily (duration 1-27 days) 1.4
Monthly (duration 28-89 days) 1.25
Quarterly (duration 90-365 days)  1.1