Transmission Services in Belgium

Enjoy the most connected transmission grid in Europe:

• Extensive access to the Northwest European market areas.
• Direct link to LNG terminals in Zeebrugge and Dunkerque.
• Connected to the European production facilities.
• Linked to the Loenhout storage facility.

Providing you the European gas flow crossroad with 12 interconnection points:

• Transmission from Dutch and Norwegian production sites to France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Italy.
• Bi-directional transmission between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
• The offer of a wide range of arbitrage and trading opportunities on the ZTP market.
• The flexibility offered by the market based balancing system.

Benefit from a direct connection to:

• Over 230 large industrial sites, power stations, combined heat and power units connected to our grid.
• Over 70 aggregated receiving stations on our grid for the local distributors to the households and small and medium enterprises.
• More than 90 customers already make use of our transmission services.

Balansys, the market based balancing system

Since 2015, Fluxys Belgium and Creos Luxembourg, merged the Belgian and Luxembourg H-gas markets in one cross-border integrated gas market. They created “Balansys” which has been appointed as the Balancing Operator which offers the balancing services in the BeLux area.

Sales channels

Overview of the different transmission services sales channels, allocation method and product duration.

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Capacity Calculation Methodology

Fluxys updates annually its ten-year indicative investment program. These actualizations take into account the evolution of the needs for supply of natural gas, requests for new connections and the new needs of the grid users as a result of market consultations.

In order to actualize the investment programme, Fluxys performs simulations on the existing configuration of its grid, based on the data for the expected development as a result of the request for transmission capacity and the estimated evolution of capacities. Different scenarios are investigated taking into account different possible configuration of gas flow, peak consumption and the maximum grid imbalance.

These grid simulations on a largely bi-directional and highly interconnected grid remain a continuous and complex exercise. Based on these transmission grid simulations, the firmness of the capacity of the grid users and end-users can be guaranteed.