Storage Energy Platform

The Storage Energy Platform is designed to support the operation of natural gas storages. Its functionality mainly covers all business processes of gas storages’ operation, ensuring all legal and regulatory compliances.

Storage Energy Platform is not only able to meet the requirements of commercial gas storing, but it is also capable of managing the business processes of handling the National Gas Reserve as well. The system is capable of separately handling the commercial and strategic storages, even though these gas reserves are in the same reservoir.

Main features of the application:

• Capacity management:

  • Daily calculation of the available storage load level,

  • Manual intervention capability to control the daily maximum load level,

  • Up-to-date calculation of available storage capacities, with storage portal publication.

• Sales:

  • First-come, first-served capacity sales with automatic bidding.

• Nomination:

  • Recording daily and weekly nominations, performing business checks, providing the possibility of automatic/manual nomination acceptance/rejection,

  • Nomination summary, daily storage load calculation, storage forecasting,

  • Automatic operative matching with the TSO.

• Allocation and accounting:

  • Receive allocation data (daily and monthly) from TSO IT Platform,

  • Automatic allocation of quantity distributed to contracts,

  • Compilation of daily, monthly, and free choice period gas trading accounts and statements, and management of modified records.

• Physical balance:

  • All balance movements are made according to the measurements,

  • Separate register of mobile and cushion gas inventories,

  • Production of balance reports for optional intervals.

• Commercial balance:

  • All balance movements are made automatically according to the allocations,

  • Multi-level inventory management:

    • storage summarised inventory (with the separation of the commercial and the national reserve),

    • customers’ inventories and

    • contract level inventories,

  • Multi-level reporting of the gas storage activities for optional intervals.

• Dispatching:

  • Maintenance of storage operation parameters and storage profiles,

  • Open/close national gas reserve and managing authorisations,

  • Open renomination sessions,

  • Managing storage schedule.

• Maintenance:

  • Maintenance and emergency task management and calculation their influence on capacity.

• Data service:

  • Continuous and ad hoc data service for the regulatory office, the TSO, the GSE and storage customers. Data service scope and depth are ruled by TIP authorisation permissions and customized by user roles.

• Secondary trade:

  • In order to support storage capacity and gas reserve trades, an ordering system is provided to enter purchase/sell offers. The storage operator is notified about bound trades.

Reference

• MMBF Földgáztároló Zrt.