Long-term planning

In accordance with legislation in force since 21 November 2011, Austrian Gas Grid Management AG (AGGM) is obliged to prepare a long-term plan at least once a year in accordance with section 18 (1) (11) in conjunction with section 22 GWG for the distribution area in line with the aims of the section 22 (1) GWG. The objective of long-term planning is to plan the distribution systems in accordance with Annex 1 to the GWG with regard to

• covering the demand for transport capacity to supply consumers while considering emergency scenarios
• achieving a high level of system availability
• addressing the capacity needs at the internal interconnection points with the transmission network and at storage-related entry/exit points and

• ensuring consistency with the Community-wide network development plan and the coordinated network development plan according to section 63 et seq. GWG
• complying with the infrastructure standard according to Article 6 Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 in the market area
• increasing transparency for the market with respect to planned and already decided system expansions and development measures, including the planned timing of such investment projects.

2019 long term plan

Data Acquisition 

The data for the consumption model and the demands at the entry/exit points have been gathered. Additional capacity expansion applications, which are stated before the 30^th of Mai 2019, are also taken into account in the 2019 long term plan.

Planning

Based on the gathered data, the consumption model and the supply model will be built. By carrying out hydraulic simulations it is checked whether all end consumers and all requested Entry and Exit capacities can be properly supplied.

Consultation

The consultation of the 2019 long term plan will take place from the 7^th of October 2019 until the 25^th of October 2019. The consultation documents will be published on the AGGM homepage.

Austrian Gas Infrastructure Day

The results of the 2019 long term plan will be presented to the market at the Austrian Gas Infrastructure Day (AGID) on the 15^th of October 2019 in Vienna.

Approval

It is planned that E-Control Austria will issue the notification for the 2019 long term plan at the end of December 2019.

2018 long-term planning

E-Control Austria approved the 2018 long-term planning on 20 December 2018 by notice. 

The consultation of the 2018 long-term planning took place between 17 October 2018 and 9 November 2018. The consultation version and the opinions are published below:

The results of 2018 the long-term planning were presented to the market participants on the 16 October 2018 as part of the Austrian Gas Infrastructure Development Day (AGIDD).

2014 – 2017 long-term planning

The long-term planning of the past periods, the corresponding decision of the Energie-Control Austria, as well as the presentations of the planning conferences and the consultations are listed in the following table.

For reasons of transparency, AGGM publishes the decision of Energie-Control Austria on long-term planning, whereby confidential information on the protection of company and business secrets was made unrecognizable.