Highly Flexible: Hub Trading
Short-term trading, internal portfolio optimization, peak load balancing for consumer households or power plants: Hub trading always offers a high degree of flexibility. In the quickest configuration, you have a six-fold turnover of the stored natural gas available to you. In place of the hub trading standard configuration, you are also able to individually customize product characteristics.
| Market area | THE |
| Turnover duration | 61 - 390 Days |
| Characteristic curve restriction | yes |
| Minimum level | no |
| Interruptibility | firm |
| Minimum booking amount | 2.5 GWh |
| Transport | Booking and nomination by VGS |
| Nomination | Until 04:30 pm for the following day |
| Lead time for renomination | 2.25 h |
| Implementation period | No binding booking request: Ten (10) working days |
Online booking: Two (2) working days | |
| Transfer of ownership | no |
| Physical storage | yes |
| Transfer point | VHP THE |
| easystore configuration per 1 GWh | Minimum | Standard | Maximum | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection rate | MWh/h |
| 0.25 | 0.43 | 1.75 |
| Withdrawal rate | MWh/h |
| 0.25 | 0.73 | 2.50 |
| Injection duration | Days |
| 211 | 123 | 31 |
| Withdrawal duration | Days |
| 179 | 70 | 30 |
| Transfer duration | Days |
| 390 | 193 | 61 |
| Contact term | |
|---|---|
| Start | Possible for each gas day |
| Duration | At least 1 gas day, maximum of 20 years |
| Additional services | ||
|---|---|---|
| Combination with other products | firm | Day-Ahead | Within-Day |
| interruptible | Pure | Micro | |
| Gas transfer | On request (charges as per fee schedule; free of charge for connection contracts) | |
| (Partial) capacity transfer | yes |
| Injection characteristic curve | ||
|---|---|---|
| ESL100% | MWh/h | 0.43 |
| ESLred | MWh/h | 0.23 |
| AGKSE | GWh | 0.68 |
| AGKS100% | GWh | 1.00 |
| Withdrawal characteristic curve | ||
|---|---|---|
| WR100% | MWh/h | 0.73 |
| WRred | MWh/h | 0.15 |
| WGABW | GWh | 0.22 |
| WGAB100% | GWh | 1.00 |
* These are the characteristics of the default configuration example of 1 GWh.
Hub? Flat? Hub Trading Flat!
The name says it all: Hub Trading Flat has no characteristic curves – this means the maximum level of flexibility for you. Independent of volume levels, you can use the services anytime, whenever you need them. This lets you benefit from a trading product which opens up many opportunities for you. The natural gas is – as is true of all hub products – transferred at virtual trading points (VTP).
The product is also available at Flange - Trading Flat.
You can book the product in Easystore easily until 2 p. m. and you can use it from 6 a. m. the next day. The fee calculation is dynamic and the current market conditions are adapted. Configure your product in Easystore and in the configuration overview you will see the corresponding fee. An extended registration for online booking is necessary.
| Market area | THE |
| Turnover duration | 60 Days |
| Characteristic curve restriction | no |
| Interruptibility | firm |
| Minimum booking amount | 2.5 GWh |
| Transport | Booking and nomination by VGS |
| Nomination | until 04:30 pm for the following day |
| Lead time for renomination | 2.25 h |
| Implementation period | Online booking: Sixteen (16) hours |
| Transfer of ownership | no |
| Physical storage | yes |
| Transfer point | VHP THE |
| easystore configuration boundaries per 1 GWh | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Injection rate | MWh/h | 1.39 |
| Withdrawal rate | MWh/h | 1.39 |
| Injection duration | Days | 30 |
| Withdrawal duration | Days | 30 |
| Transfer duration | Days | 60 |
| Contract term | |
|---|---|
| Start | Possible for each gas day |
| Duration | Booking before 01/12/20xx: Duration until |
| Additional services | ||
|---|---|---|
| Combination with other products | firm | Day-Ahead | Within-Day |
| interruptible | Pure | Micro (on request) | |
| Gas transfer | On request (charges as per fee schedule; free of | |
| (Partial) capacity transfer | yes |