“Aiming to enhance the establishment of a fair and sustainable energy landscape, GIE supports the European institutions and governments in implementing the repowering EU plan. We welcome the leadership changes initiated by the EC and will keep closely monitoring the evolutions of the gas market via the use of our transparency platforms.
Information is a core component of efficient decision-making. Gas market daily updates, with a clear overview of the volumes and flows within European storage sites and LNG facilities can be found on our website. Besides, GIE is constantly engaging with its members across Europe, accessing a helicopter view of the new geopolitical dynamics. GIE will be glad to get in conversation with you on the matter.
Getting ready for next winter is a key priority, but long terms objectives should not be forgotten along the way. Today’s challenges can be overcome with the solutions provided by our infrastructure, in the short and long term, with natural and renewable gases. Besides, we provide the necessary flexibility for the integration of more renewables in our energy system. But it’s only a foretaste of what we can do. It is now all about updating the policy framework to remove the bottlenecks that prevent Europe from delivering its objectives.”
Boyana Achovski, GIE Secretary General
GIE was formally established on 10 March 2005 as a legally independent and non-profit association with official articles of associations. Its Secretariat is based in Brussels (Avenue de Cortenbergh 100). The GIE President is Mr. Torben Brabo.
GIE – Gas Infrastructure Europe – is representing 68 member companies from 27 countries, gathering operators of gas infrastructures across Europe: transmission pipelines, storage facilities and LNG terminals.
GIE aims to find market-based solutions in order to best meet the interests of the network users; with regard to regulated activities of our members we advocate a stable and predictable regulatory framework consistent throughout the European Union in order to create an environment that facilitates investments. This is of particular importance since infrastructure is a prerequisite both for security of supply and for creating competition. Only if investments into infrastructure and the creation of new capacity are sufficient in order to cope with the rising demand for natural gas can natural gas remain a cornerstone of the European energy mix.
GIE is promoting interoperability of the European gas systems to enhance cross-border gas exchanges through the work done within GIE on this issue and in cooperation with other stakeholders.
The GIE objectives comprise mainly but are not necessarily limited to those listed:
GIE is the umbrella organisation for its three subdivisions
GTE – Gas Transmission Europe
representing the Transmission System Operators (TSO)
GLE – Gas LNG Europe
representing the LNG Terminal Operators (LSO)
GSE – Gas Storage Europe
representing the Storage System Operators (SSO)
The management of the classical natural gas market we see to be developed under the Natural Gas Area. The existing market and its regulatory design are very mature and requires its own focus. Markets in some regions should be finalised, and the CCE/SEE prospects should have more focus
Topics followed:
Relation with ACER/CEER and policymakers (ad-hoc) on natural gas
We introduce a new area, the Hydrogen Area, where the role of new gases on a wholesale level will be tackled more in depth. Such change is born from the EC decarbonization process, the EC System Integration and Hydrogen strategies.
Topics followed:
The technical work addressed so far under the System Operation Area, together with the GIE Maps and Transparency will be covered under the existing System Operation and Development Area.
Topics followed:
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