Our Commitment

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Our Commitment

Uniper Energy Storage GmbH pools together decades of experience and all of the Uniper Group’s competence in underground storage of natural gas. We regularly review our comprehensive product portfolio to reflect the needs of our customers in a changing market, so that we can pass on the technical and commercial innovations we are continually making on-site to our facilities.

If we are missing a product that would meet your specific needs, please get in touch with our sales team who will be happy to assist you.

Our Storage Portfolio

We currently offer around 80 TWh of working gas capacity in our underground gas storage facilities.

Each individual storage facility has direct access to at least one virtual trading point. The 7Fields and Etzel ESE storage facilities also offer access to additional trading points. Our 7Fields storage facility is connected to the German THE and the Austrian CEGH. Our northern storage facility Etzel ESE enables trading at THE and TTF. The flexible storage facility in Holford is connected to the British NBP market area via the Cheshire entry point.

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Our portfolio consists of 8 gas storage facilities

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with access to 4 market areas

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in 4 countries

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TWh of working gas capacity

Storage Products

Our storage products, which are marketed in storage bundles, are based on the technical capabilities of our storage facilities. A storage bundle is a combination of working gas volume, and injection and withdrawal capacities, whereby these three components are in a fixed ratio to each other. At our storage locations, we offer one or more storage bundle types with different characteristics, but the main distinguishing feature is the "churn" rate. i.e. how often the working volume can be injected or withdrawn within a storage year by the assigned injection and withdrawal rate. At some locations it is also necessary to integrate interruptible capacities into the storage bundles in order to exploit the full potential of the storage facility. Interruptible capacities are subject to certain restrictions, for example, they are not always fully available due to temperature and pressure conditions, however, interruptible capacities help our customers to get the maximum value from our storage facilities.

Our product portfolio consists of storage bundles that can be divided into the types "fast churn", "mid churn" and "seasonal churn". "Fast churn" bundle types have high injection and withdrawal rates in relation to their working gas capacity, which means that the working gas volume can be churned several times a year. "Seasonal" bundle types have a relatively high working gas capacity compared to their injection and withdrawal capacities, which means that the working gas volume can only be churned approximately once per year. They are therefore particularly suitable for seasonal use. “Mid churn" bundle types are a combination of the other two bundle types, balancing higher injection and withdrawal rates than “seasonal” bundle types, and generally higher working gas capacities than “fast churn” bundle types. By combining different storage facilities and bundle types, our customers can achieve high degrees of flexibility in their storage portfolio.

Pricing

Our storage product prices are made up of the following components:

  • Annual storage fee – either a fixed or indexed price determined by the bids of our customers in our storage auctions
  • System service fee – a lump sum of 14,628 € / per year
  • Variable injection fee – 0.9053 € / MWh of injected gas

(as of 27.03.2024)

Annual price revision according to the price sheet (Annex IV GTCS)

Gas storage facilities are physical assets and so are subject to physical restrictions in temperature, pressure and the equipment used at each site. The following general rules apply:

The more working gas is withdrawn, the lower the storage pressure, which leads to restrictions in withdrawal rates. Vice versa, the more working gas is injected, the higher the storage pressure, which leads to restrictions in injection rates.

We offer our storage products mainly directly at the connection point. In this case, the delivery and/or return point is the storage connection point directly at the storage facility. Transport capacities to/from the virtual trading point are not included but have to be booked separately by the customer via the known capacity trading platforms, with the network operator or, in case of access to the CEGH (Storage 7Fields), via us.

Supplementary Products

We offer supplementary products to support our customers in maximising the value they can get from our storage facilities. Depending on the facility, our customers can choose the supplementary products that are of interest to them.

 

Products for Storage Year 2023/2024

We currently market our storage capacities mainly via auctions, which are carried out via our storage portal. By registering for our newsletter, you will be informed about all of our upcoming auctions. All the relevant, technical information and the published contract documents for the upcoming auctions can be found on our storage portal. If you would like to actively participate in the auction, you must first register and obtain a licence on our storage portal. Please contact a member of our sales team.

Products and services

Market areas THE
Usage type Seasonal
Pricing type Fixed Price
Market areas CEGH/THE
Usage type Seasonal
Pricing type Fixed Price
Market areas THE
Usage type Fast Churn
Pricing type Fixed Price
Market areas THE
Usage type Fast Churn
Pricing type Fixed Price
Market areas THE
Usage type Mid Churn
Pricing type Fixed Price
Market areas CEGH/THE
Usage type Mid Churn
Pricing type Fixed Price

Dashboard, Storage portal and Nomination portal

In order to provide you with information in a transparent and user-friendly way, we have developed the storage portal and operational dashboard for our customers. Our storage portal provides detailed information on our various underground gas storage facilities, available capacities and gives you an overview of our product portfolio. In addition, you can participate in auctions via the storage portal and it offers you the opportunity to trade capacities at short notice. Our operational dashboard provides at-a-glance information on current and historical injections, withdrawals and storage levels for our facilities.

You can make injection and withdrawal capacity nominations with us via the nomination portal. In addition, you can call up and export the current occupation and storage levels. If you are an active customer and do not have access to the nomination portal but need it, please contact our colleagues in the dispatching department.

Contacts

Gas Storage Experts for Germany and Austria

Martin Schulling

Martin Schüling

Sales & Optimization
+49 1 51-25 20 77 80
Marisa

Marisa Lütke-Stratkötter

Sales & Optimization
+49 160 9054 7628
Mahir

Mahir Argac

Sales & Optimization
+49 151 44582986

Holford Storage Facility (UK)

Tom

Tom Manuel

UK Sales, Optimisation & Business Development
+44 781 1242 316

Already a customer? Contact our Dispatching and Billing Experts.

Carsten

Carsten Bentler

Dispatching
+49 175 4383 984
Matthias

Matthias Schwieters

Dispatching
+49 160 9070 0895
Contact  Dispatching

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(available 24/7) on:
+49 (0) 211 – 45796 - 321
How to find us

How to find us

Our global presence

We continue to strengthen our presence in key markets, develop innovative solutions and acquire companies in prioritized areas. Uniper solutions are sold to over 100 countries and we currently operate in over 40 countries.