Europe: Poland discusses increasing capacity of German gas interconnector

Chemical News: Europe: Poland discusses increasing capacity of German gas interconnector

https://www.chemnet.com Apr 22,2011 Platts
Poland's energy regulator, URE, said late Wednesday that the state-run transmission system operator, Gaz-System, will present its opinion on the draft procedures to increase the capacity of the country's interconnector with Germany by the end of April.

Gaz-System is working on a project to increse the capacity of the interconnector, located at Lasow on the German border, from 0.9 billion cubic meters/year to 1.5 Bcm/year.

URE and Gaz-System have agreed that the TSO should be in a position to announce the shipping trade agreements by September, URE said in a statement.

The regulator and TSO also agreed that the transmission procedures will create the possibility to separate part of the bandwidth for short-term contracts of less than 12 months.

The Lasow interconnector is currently the country's sole gas network connection with a European Union neighbor. Gaz System also has plans to build a second EU interconnector with the Czech Republic.

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