The networks are currently owned by Enexis Netbeheer, Enduris and Zebra Gasnetwerk. The network operators are considering, in consultation with the customers involved, whether GTS can take over these networks from mid-2019 onwards and they will also present this proposal to the regulator, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM).

Extra high pressure networks are gas transmission networks operating at higher pressure levels (above 16 bar) managed by distribution network operators. High-calorific gas is transported via these networks. Transferring these networks to the national gas transmission network could make a positive contribution to the Dutch gas market and to the use of the national grid, said GTS, adding that the feasibility of taking over these networks will be explored over the next six months.  GTS is wholly-owned by state infrastructure company Gasunie (which also owns a similar Gasunie Deutschland gas grid in Germany).

Separately, GTS said June 22 that it will use 'Pegas' as the exclusive platform for the determination and provision - with effect from July 1 2018 - of its neutral gas price. GTS uses this neutral gas price, among other things, for the settlement of off-line allocations and shippers' linepack flexibility services. The Pegas gas trading platform is is the central gas trading platform of EEX Group operated by Powernext,owned by Paris-based power exchange Powernext.