Trading Hub Europe GmbH (THE) was commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the Federal Network Agency to develop an additional balancing gas product. The additional balancing gas product focuses on the activation of cut-off potentials of industrial customers for the use of balancing gas and thus enables industrial customers to offer their potential to the market area manager (MAM) as external balancing gas at any time (System Buy). The implementation of the additional balancing gas product takes place within MOL rank 4.
The corresponding product description is to be completed and published in summer 2022. THE plans to introduce the new balancing gas product on 1 October 2022.
The product parameters as of 8 July 2022 are available here.