Transmission in Belgium

Transmission Services in Belgium

Enjoy the most connected transmission grid in Europe:

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.
  • Transmission of Russian gas to all European countries and the United Kingdom.
  • 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.

Transmission on Interconnection Points

Fluxys offers you two main types of services for transmission on interconnection points: Entry & Exit Services and Shorthauls:

  • Entry & Exit services allow you to transport natural gas within the Belgian transmission grid
  • Shorthauls allow you to transport natural gas through specific direct routes, without entering the transmission grid in Belgium
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Entry / Exit on Interconnection Points - Belgium

Your solution to enter the Belgian market area, trade on ZTP, supply the Belgian domestic market and connect with adjacent markets
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Shorthaul - OCUC

OCUCs are the cheapest way to transport your natural gas on specific direct routes between two interconnection points.
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Shorthaul - Zee Platform

Flow unlimited quantities of natural gas between 2 or more interconnection points in the Zeebrugge area for a fixed monthly price
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Transmission services for the Belgian Market

Domestic services enable natural gas to be withdrawn from or injected to a zone of the Belgian transmission grid at a domestic point.

Those services target two main groups:

  • End-users, composed by Industry, power plants and combined heat and power facilities (CHP).
  • Grids of Distribution Systems Operators, that will bring your gas to Households and SMEs.
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End User Domestic Exit Capacity in Belgium

Transmit natural gas to an industrial end user, a power plant or a combined heat and power (CHP) facility.
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Supplying distribution grid exit points in Belgium

Transport natural gas to a distribution grid exit point without making an explicit capacity subscription
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Substitution services

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Capacity conversion

Do you have unbundled capacity in your portfolio which you want to convert into bundled capacity?
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Diversion

Transfer for a standard period your existing capacity on an interconnection point to another interconnection point that is in the same grid location
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L Capacity Switch Service

As The Netherlands will stop exporting L gas by 2030, switch your entry capacity at Hilvarenbeek L or your exit capacity at Blaregnies L.
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Other Services

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Quality conversion

Easily transfer gas from one area to another with our quality conversion service.
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ZTP trading services

On the integrated Belgian / Luxemburg gas market, you may buy or sell natural gas using one of the 3 available Hubs.
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Imbalance pooling service

Automatically transfer the difference between your purchases and sales of ZTP physical trading services to another shipper. You can also transfer your hourly Market Imbalances via a Service offered by Balansys, this allows you to avoid hourly monitoring of your Market Balancing Position and consequently all Balancing Settlements.
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Assignment

Assign your unused entry and exit capacities on Interconnection Points (bundled or unbundled) or Domestic Points to another Transmission shipper.
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Imbalance Smoothing Allocation

Limit the effect of the (predictable) offtake profile of the distribution networks. An imbalance smoothing profile, aiming at neutralising on a daily basis part of the imbalance caused by the hourly profiled flow on the distribution networks, is allocated to the network users for their final customers and possible local producer on the distribution networks.

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Sales channels

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

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Operational information

For shippers - All transmission services

More information on operational readiness.

For Belgian End Consumers

Your data on Natural Gas Specifications, how we establish quantities of gas delivered and historical composition of the natural gas imported into Belgium can be found here.

 

 

Useful links for you

  • Fluxys BelgiumAvenue des Arts 31, B-1040 Brussels
    +32 2 282 72 11
    +32 2 230 02 39