The special feature of our product Pure is the usage related fee. Merely for the provision of working gas volume you pay a fix capacity fee. The fee for injection and withdrawal results depending on the actual usage. With its high injection rate and withdrawal rate Pure is brilliantly suitable for peak load, short-term fulfilment of demand as well as a quantity buffer.
Due to Beate-regulation, which came into force on 01/01/2016, VNG Gasspeicher GmbH offers an account model for their storage Etzel. This enables both the discounted storage access, while using only one market area, as well as the market area crossing, this however, eliminates the grant of the discount on the transportation fee. In addition, a transfer between accounts is possible, but this falls to a rebooking fee. Thus you can continue to respond flexibly to market conditions.
Gas transfer A Pure can be transferred between the contracts of Pure, Micro, Trading and Trading Storage. Is the other customer’s contract a "Trading Storage" contract the gas transfer also requires that the working gas account of the other customer’s contract shows a working gas account balance after the gas transfer that does not exceed 95 % of the totally contracted working gas volume.
What is a hub product?
With hub products, you transfer and accept your natural gas directly at virtual trading points in the GASPOOL – Balancing Services GmbH ("GASPOOL") market area.
We take care of the transport of the natural gas from the virtual trading point to the storage facility. This allows you to profit from both physical storage of your natural gas in one of our GASPOOL market area storage facilities as well as the availability found at virtual trading points. The natural gas stored with us remains your property at all times.
We offer a variety of hub products. Their differences are found in the turnover times and characteristic curves. You can find detailed information regarding Hub Trading Flat, Hub Trading and Hub Season in the Products area.
Hub products can be booked quickly and easily using easystore.
What is a flange product?
In flange products, you transfer and accept your natural gas directly at the corresponding entry/exit points in the underground storage facilities found in the Ontras – Gastransport GmbH ("ONTRAS") network.
You take care of the booking and nomination of the natural gas transport yourself. You benefit from a two-hour notification period for Within Day renominations. The natural gas stored with us remains your property at all times.
As an additional service, we also offer the convenient transfer of natural gas to other customers using the same storage facility.
We offer various flange products with differing turnover durations, interruptibility and characteristic curves. Detailed information regarding Trading, Season and Micro products can be found in the Products area.
Flange products can be booked quickly and easily using easystore.
Do you have Add on products for Day Ahead?
We can offer you various add-on products (according to availability) for a short-term increase your storage performance.
You can book day-ahead capacities on a fixed basis for your existing trading and hub trading products. You book the capacities online in Easystore. We will inform you daily up to 11 a.m. about available capacities and corresponding fee by e-mail. Please simply send us a message to sales@vng-gasspeicher.de and you will immediately receive the daily information.
Weekend capacities can be booked on Friday. Booking on weekends is not possible.
Within-day capacities are available to you on the current gas day as a band for rest of the day.
The capacities can be booked daily from 6 a.m. with a lead time of 3 hours.
The booking is not made online. Please use the booking form. As in the case of day-ahead capacities, the fee is determined depending on the current market situation.
The process for exceeding of capacities is regulated in our Operating Manual (§5 Subcontractual Nomination). Extra-contractual capacities are only available after prior consultation. The fee is listed in the fee overview and applies to every hour in which the contracted service is exceeded. These capacities are only available on an interruptible basis.
In which market areas can I book VGS products?
Hub products can be booked at the GASPOOL market area , flange products in GASPOOL and NetConnect Germany.
How and where can I book the transport of VGS products?
Transport to and from our natural gas storage facilities is booked with the transport system operators for each VNG storage location. Detailed information regarding the system operators connected to each location can be found in the "Transport Fees" section.
We take care of the transport of the natural gas from the virtual trading point to the storage facility. You are responsible for fees based on your initial nomination (see fees).
Can I also purchase services individually?
Yes – if you already have an existing basis contract with us. You are able to book the Day-Ahead product and "Add ons" as individual services using the easystore product consultant or via email (sales@vng-gasspeicher.de).
WGV, IR/WR firm and IR/WR interruptible Add ons are are available for flange products for long-term, day-ahead or within-day period.
Hub products can be enhanced with WGV or IR/WR firm Add ons for long-term, day-ahead or within-day period.
Am I able to combine products?
Yes: using the so-called natural gas transfer process. Injected natural gas volumes can be transferred between your own contracts or between different customers provided that they are part of the same type of contract valid for the same gas storage facility. This means that you are able to transfer injected natural gas volumes within a storage facility when these are part of the same type of product which have an appropriate amount of contractual working gas volume available. Natural gas may also be transferred between hub contracts.
x = Gas transfer is always possible.
* = If the involved contract is for Trading or Season storage, the working gas account of the contract may not exceed 95% of the total contracted working gas volume.
o = Gas transfers are possible subject to technical availability. You must submit a request to us in these cases. We will then check the physical natural gas storage location related to this particular hub contract.
Can I transfer capacities, in whole or in part, to other customers?
Yes, our customers may transfer capacities to and from each other in whole or in part. This is done as a "partial capacity transfer". You can divide one contract into two or more and transfer these to other customers.
This type of capacity transfer is available for all products excluding Micro and BioMicro.
We charge a transfer fee for this service. This is determined as follows: We calculate the service fee for the transferred capacities for a one storage year period. The fee charged to you for the partial capacity transfer shall be € 5,000.00.
Would you like to partially transfer capacities and are looking for other interested parties? We offer Secondary Marketing.