Key elements in the indicative investment programme for the period 2010-2019
Fluxys’ indicative investment programme 2010-2019 currently amounts to a little over €2 billion. The group has planned expenditure of €1.7 billion for the period 2010-2015 alone, i.e. the equivalent of 80% of its investment programme. The programme also has sufficient in-built flexibility to be able to react rapidly to changes on an uncertain market and thus to avoid unnecessary investment.
The indicative investment programme contains the following key elements:
- Maintaining the security, integrity and reliability of the infrastructure.
- Opening up the grid to as many sources as possible to ensure maximum diversification, thus contributing to security of supply.
- Making new capacity available to cover the expected growth in demand, primarily in the energy sector, for transmission capacity in Belgium.
- Strengthening the role of the Fluxys grid as a crossroads for international natural gas flows in North-Western Europe by making additional border-to-border capacity as agreed with grid users via long-term contracts.
- Moving towards a virtual marketplace for the Belgian market via a uniform entry/exit model.
- Increasing capacity and availability at the Loenhout underground natural gas storage facility.
- Systematically reducing the environmental impact of the company’s activities.

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