GAZ-SYSTEM publishes joint reports on Market Demand Assessment for incremental capacity

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As part of the Incremental process 2025-2027, GAZ-SYSTEM together with transmission system operators from the neighbouring countries conducted the fifth non-binding assessment of market demand for incremental capacity.

The operators prepared common market demand assessment reports based on non-binding notifications received from the interested entities. In those reports, they estimated the potential demand for incremental capacity within a given system at entry-exit points and determined whether an incremental capacity project should be launched.
 
Based on the non-binding notifications received, it was decided that in accordance with the findings from the procedure initiated this year, an incremental capacity project would be proposed for the entry-exit points within the networks operated by GAZ-SYSTEM and LLC ‘Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine’.
 
Therefore, in the upcoming design phase, both operators will conduct technical analyses based on the reported demand for increased transmission capacity. Subsequently, at a later stage of the procedure, they will submit incremental capacity project proposal for market consultation.

The conclusions from the incremental capacity demand assessment prepared separately for each of the seven interconnections, were presented in the following reports: 
  1. Poland-Germany (Trading Hub Europe) interconnection: 
  2. Poland TGPS-Germany (Trading Hub Europe) interconnection:
  3. Poland-Denmark interconnection:
  4. Poland-Czech Republic interconnection: 
  5. Poland-Lithuania interconnection: 
  6. Poland-Slovakia interconnection: 
  7. Poland-Ukraine interconnection:
The Market Demand Assessment reports for incremental capacity are also available on the ENTSOG website.
 

Pursuant to Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/459 (CAM NC), transmission system operators are obliged to conduct incremental capacity assessment procedure on a regular basis. This process for assessing market demand for incremental capacity comprises a non-binding phase whereby network users report and estimate their demand for incremental capacity, and a binding phase in which at least one transmission system operator requests binding commitments for contracting capacity from network users.


Incremental capacity created in the incremental capacity process shall mean the new capacity offered as a result of an increase in technical capacity at existing interconnection points, establishing a new interconnection point or points, or the provision of physical reverse flow capacity at interconnection points which have not been offered before.