Association of gas transmission system operators
| Association of the transmission system operators Gas e. V. (FNB Gas) |
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| purpose | Industry association of the supraregional German gas transmission system operators |
| Chair: | Ralph Bahke |
| Manager: | Inga Posch |
| Establishment date: | 2012 |
| Number of members: | 11 |
| Seat : | Berlin , Germany |
| Website: | www.fnb-gas.de |
The Association of Pipeline Network Operators Gas e. V. ( FNB Gas ) is a German industry association in which the transmission system operators for gas in Germany have come together. The FNB Gas office is located in Berlin .
FNB Gas was founded at the end of 2012 against the background of the increasingly necessary cooperation between the transmission system operators.
Members
FNB Gas has 11 members:
| Surname | Company headquarters |
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| bayernets GmbH | Munich |
| Fluxys TENP GmbH | Dusseldorf |
| Gascade Gastransport GmbH | kassel |
| Gastransport Nord GmbH | Oldenburg |
| Gasunie Germany Transport Services GmbH | Hanover |
| GRTgaz Germany GmbH | Berlin |
| Nowega GmbH | Muenster |
| ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH | Leipzig |
| Open Grid Europe GmbH | eat |
| Terranets BW GmbH | Stuttgart |
| Thyssengas GmbH | Dortmund |
tasks
FNB Gas, in coordination with the Federal Network Agency, takes on the publication and consultation obligations of the gas transmission system operator as set out in the EnWG. The obligations of the TSO are set out in the Energy Industry Act (EnWG) §15a.
In addition, FNB Gas coordinates the joint technical and public relations work of the FNB in connection with the network development plan (NEP) for the German gas pipeline network, which is published every even year and presented to the regulatory authorities. This specifies all the measures required for the next ten years that are necessary for the safe and reliable operation of the gas pipeline network. The TSO Gas submit an implementation report in every odd calendar year. In the run-up to the NEP, the German transmission system operators develop the scenario framework, which includes forecasts of gas volumes and requirements, including investment projects in the network infrastructure.
FNB Gas coordinates and bundles the technical exchange of the transmission system operators beyond the network development plan and is the contact for the media, politics, business, science and the public for all questions relating to the transport infrastructure and its further development in the context of the energy transition. The member companies of FNB Gas operate a pipeline network that is almost 40,000 kilometers long for the supra-regional and cross-border gas transport . It creates connections to connected transport systems in neighboring countries, large industrial customers, power plants and storage facilities. Downstream operators of finely branched networks , such as municipal utilities, take over the gas and distribute it to the end user.
The member companies of the FNB Gas, together with other pipeline operators from all sectors, support the nationwide digital information system for pipeline research (BIL) to centralize pipeline information in Germany.
Network expansion
Against the background of the targeted climate goals and the associated rapidly growing importance of hydrogen, FNB Gas has developed a visionary concept for a first supra-regional hydrogen network as the backbone for a German hydrogen economy. The visionary hydrogen network comprises lines with a length of around 5,900 km and is 90 percent based on the existing natural gas network. It provides for a large part of the future focus of hydrogen consumption in the industrial, mobility and heating sectors to be supplied with hydrogen by integrating the gas storage system. The transmission system operators have developed an initial specification of the visionary network in their draft of the Gas NEP 2020-2030 (H2 start network 2030).
Web links
- fnb-gas.de - Official website of the FNB Gas
Individual evidence
- ^ FNB Gas: Portrait
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: Natural gas supply
- ^ FNB Gas: member company. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ gesetze-im-internet.de: Law on electricity and gas supply (Energy Industry Act). Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
- ^ FNB Gas: Gas Sector. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
- ↑ FNB Gas: transmission system operators publish H2 starter network 2030. Accessed on June 25, 2020 .