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GAS INFRASTRUCTURE
choices while ensuring that
achievements of the internal energy
market for gas are maintained and
further developed, in realities of
both methane and hydrogen-based
economy. To achieve a cost-efficient
decarbonisation there will be a need
to review the regulatory framework
and, where necessary, to amend
it to ensure the development
of gas-based decarbonisation
technologies. ENTSOG proposes to
work on this by reaching agreement
with all institutions and stakeholders
on seven topics:
Electrolysis, Power to Gas, Pyrolysis, that the consumers will continue to 1. EU Gas Market with New Gases
Steam Methane Reforming, Carbon value the most. 2. Principles for New Gases
Capture, Utilisation and Storage and
biomethane and synthetic methane TSOs future role is to manage the gas Transportation
production technologies deserve grids in a way that those assets can 3. European Guarantees of Origin and
support to achieve scalability. Gas, be enablers of transition. The choices
as international energy carrier, and decisions are influenced by the Certificates
is and will be needed even more overall EU climate and energy policies 4. Principles for Sector Coupling
necessary to decarbonise also and will differ amongst the EU 5. Regulatory Sandbox
other sectors: electricity, industry, Member States. Therefore, TSOs will 6. European Gas Quality Handling
heating and other sectors. manage diversity of technological 7. Principles for CO2 transportation
For this, ENTSOG believes that the The ENTSOG Roadmap 2050 was
future EU energy system should launched at ENTSOG’s Annual
build on a Hybrid Energy System Conference on 11 December 2019,
– an interlinkage between the which also celebrated the ten years
gas and electricity systems based since its foundation. More details on
on synergies between these the conference and stakeholders’
two international energy carriers. views on the Roadmap2050 can be
The Hybrid Energy System will found at this link. l
allow the EU economy to meet
decarbonisation targets, obtain About the author
flexibility, storage options, cross-
border transportation capacities Jan Ingwersen is General Director of ENTSOG, seconded from
and security of supply in a faster ENERGINET – the Danish gas and electricity TSO. He previously held
and more efficient way – realising positions at DONG Energy, Gastra and consultancies. Jan headed
synergies between the existing implementation of the liberalisation of the gas market in Denmark for
infrastructures. These are the values Gastra/Energinet (2000-2005) and the storage and offshore transmission
activities of DONG Energy (now Oersted) (2006-2013). He has over 30
years’ experience working in all parts of gas sector value chain – gas
procurement, offshore and onshore gas transmission, gas storage and
gas sales.
Jan holds a technical MSc from University of Aalborg, Denmark, a
commercial degree from Copenhagen Business School and management
education from IMD, Switzerland.
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