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.

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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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:

Capacity Information

Technical Yearly Capacity Overview

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

More information in our GTCs 

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

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.

Prices for firm capacity

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

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:

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: