Congestion at about 15% of the gas system interconnection points (IPs) in the EU is hindering market participants to trade natural gas freely across borders or across in-country network zones, according to the annual congestion report published, on 29 May, by the EU energy regulatory agency ACER.
The report, which is based on 2014 data, reveals that demand for cross-border or cross-zonal gas transmission capacity exceeded the so-called technical capacity at the problematic IPs – technical capacity means the maximum…