Ontras
| ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat |
Leipzig , Germany
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| management | Managing directors:
Supervisory Board:
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| Number of employees | 347 (2018) |
| sales | 366 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | Transmission system operator |
| Website | www.ontras.com |
The Ontras Gas Transport GmbH is a transmission system operator for natural gas based in Leipzig . Ontras is a subsidiary of VNG - Verbundnetz Gas and operates Germany's second largest pipeline network with around 7,000 kilometers of pipeline length and around 450 network interconnection points.
VNG founded Ontras on January 1st, 2006. This had become necessary due to the demands of the Energy Industry Act for a complete separation of gas trading and transport under company law. As part of the 3rd EU internal energy market package , Ontras has meanwhile been completely unbundled and since then has also been responsible for the operation and maintenance of the networks and systems.
network
The company's network concentrates on Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . There are numerous network interconnection points with other transmission system operators .
Network structure data
The network operated has a total length of 6,935 km and is exclusively a high-pressure network (as of 2018). Almost three quarters of the network have nominal widths of 500 millimeters or larger.
The table shows the proportions of the pipe diameter classes in the overall network:
| Cable diameter class | length | proportion of |
|---|---|---|
| A (nominal diameter DN: x ≥ 1000 mm) | 233 km | 3.4% |
| B (nominal diameter DN: 700 mm ≤ x <1000 mm) | 1714 km | 24.7% |
| C (nominal diameter DN: 500 mm ≤ x <700 mm) | 3147 km | 45.4% |
| D (nominal diameter DN: 350 mm ≤ x <500 mm) | 832 km | 12.0% |
| E (nominal diameter DN: 200 mm ≤ x <350 mm) | 677 km | 9.8% |
| F (nominal diameter DN: 100 mm ≤ x <200 mm) | 219 km | 3.2% |
| G (nominal diameter DN: x <100 mm) | 113 km | 1.6% |
| total | 6935 km | 100% |
Regenerative gases
At Ontras, 26 biogas plants feed the gas into the network. In total, up to 180 million cubic meters of biogas flow into the Ontras network at full capacity . The costs of connecting a biogas plant to the gas network and feeding in the biogas are allocated to all network points in the Gaspool market area via the biogas levy. Ontras calculates this amount annually from the submitted costs for all transmission system operators in the Gaspool market area as a service.
Ontras participates in power-to-gas projects. In August 2013, the first plant for feeding hydrogen generated from wind power into the Ontras network went into operation in Falkenhagen . A second plant has been feeding in hydrogen since December 2014; a third system is being planned.
Participations and cooperations
Ontras is co-founder and shareholder (20%) of Gaspool , one of the two German market areas for natural gas. Ontras was also co-initiator of Gatrac, Germany's first cross-border cooperation platform for gas transports between Germany and the Czech Republic, which was discontinued in October 2013. Ontras is working together with European transmission system operators in the development of the European platform Prisma for marketing capacities, which was founded in early 2013 as the successor to the German capacity platform trac-x. Ontras is also a shareholder in other companies, including the Prisma European Capacity Platform (1.33%).
Memberships
Ontras is a member of the Association of European Gas Transmission System Operators (ENTSOG). and in the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management (BDEW). Ontras is also a founding member of the Association of Gas Transmission System Operators (FNB Gas).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Annual financial statements for the 2018 financial year of ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH In: Bundesanzeiger , June 3, 2019, accessed on February 18, 2020.
- ↑ Network map of the Ontras. (PNG) Ontras, accessed February 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Network data. Ontras, 2015, accessed July 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Ontras biogas levy . Retrieved March 11, 2014
- ↑ Storage and transport - the great potential of gas networks. In: ARGOS. The business magazine for Central Germany , September 2013, p. 29.
- ↑ Falkenhagener pilot plant "Power to Gas" on the grid In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed online on March 11, 2014
- ↑ Storage and transport - the great potential of gas networks. In: ARGOS. The business magazine for Central Germany , September 2013, pp. 29/30.
- ↑ Gatrac trading platform is discontinued. energate-messenger.de, September 23, 2013, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
- ↑ ENTSOG members. ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
- ↑ bdew.de Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ↑ FNB Gas member company. (Accessed March 11, 2014).
