ACER publishes a new report and updates its interactive dashboard to showcase main gas balancing trends in the EU for the 2023-2024 gas year.
Keeping Europe’s gas systems balanced efficiently
Each year, ACER analyses data collected by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) to monitor the implementation and effects of the Gas Balancing Network Code across Member States, focusing on:
- Transmission System Operators (TSOs)’ balancing activities;
- network users’ imbalances;
- neutrality (i.e. the cost or revenue generated by the balancing regime).
What does ACER monitoring show?
- TSOs’ balancing actions have declined across most EU gas balancing zones: These interventions accounted for a decreasing share of the physical gas market at EU level.
- The changing gas market may be reducing the need for balancing. Lower gas consumption and a smaller physical market may have reduced the need for TSOs to actively balance the system. At the same time, higher gas prices may further incentivise users to stay in balance and avoid charges.
What does ACER recommend?
ACER encourages national regulatory authorities to:
- Periodically review the performance of their balancing regimes and assess whether their design should be refined or revised.
- Ensure that incentives for commercial balancing are adequate and explore enhancements to information systems to facilitate network users’ participation.
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