Nominations

Storage Customers (ZUM) shall submit a daily Nomination to the SSO, in which it shall specify the quantities of Gaseous Fuel to be delivered for injection to or withdrawn from a Storage Facility, or a Group of Storage Facilities, for each hour of the Gas Day.

The Nominations are submitted individually for each Storage Facility or Group of Storage Facilities, i.e. separately for the UGS Wierzchowice Storage Facility, GSF Kawerna and GSF Sanok.

The quantities of Gaseous Fuel must be specified in the Nominations and Renominations in kWh for each hour of the Gas Day.

The Storage Customer (ZUM) may submit the Nominations and Renominations for a given hour of the Gas Day with respect to the Gaseous Fuel which is to be injected to the Storage Facility or a Group of Storage Facilities, or withdrawn from such Storage Facility or Group of Storage Facilities.

Nominations may be revised by way of Renominations. Each Nomination and Renomination must be approved by SSO.

On each day, by 12.00 (noon), the SSO provides the Storage Customer with 3-day forecasts for each Gas Day, specifying the limits for the Storage Customer’s Nominations and Renominations in the relevant period, or in case when they become obsolete, the SSO immediately provides the Storage Customer with an update of such forecasts.

Storage Customers submit Nominations to the SSO no later than by 2:00 pm on the Gas Day preceding the Gas Day such Nomination refers to.

The SSO shall notify the Storage Customer about the approval or rejection of the Nomination by 4:00 pm on the Gas Day preceding the Gas Day the Nomination refers to.

The Storage Customer may submit a Renomination for the hourly quantities of Gaseous Fuel specified in the Nomination approved by the SSO for a given Gas Day. The Renomination may be submitted starting from 4:00 pm on the Gas Day preceding the day the Renomination refers to, until 3:00 am of the Gas Day the Renomination refers to, subject to specific provisions of the Rules.

The Renomination review procedure begins at the top of every hour and last for two (2) hours

The SSO informs the Storage Customer of the approval or rejection of the Nomination within two (2) hours of the beginning of the Renomination review procedure.

In case when the Storage Customer submits more than one Nomination within the time-frame stipulated in these Rules, the SSO considers the last Nomination received.

The SSO verifies whether the Nominations or Renominations match the nominations or renominations in the Transmission System.

If an inconstancy is identified during the matching of the Nominations or Renominations, the lesser rule is applied by the SSO.

The SSO publishes information on non-nominated capacity (available as Daily Storage Service) immediately upon the approval of the underlying Nomination (Renomination);

For the purposes of exchange of information concerning Nominations, Renominations and Allocations between SSO, Storage Customer and TSO, the electronic document interchange standard (EDI), in the version developed for gas industry under the name EDIG@S, in xml format using the AS4 protocol, shall be applicable.