Operations in 2020
The mission of PSG as the distribution system operator is to provide gas fuel distribution services to all gas fuel consumers and traders (while ensuring that all of them receive equal treatment) in accordance with the provisions of the Energy Law. PSG provides the distribution services under relevant distribution contracts. In 2020, PSG executed seven distribution contracts and nine Interoperator Distribution Agreements. In the same period, approximately 31 thousand customers switched gas suppliers.
Source: In-house analysis based on PSG data.
PSG’s activities resulted in the execution of over 110.800 connection contracts in 2020, providing for 124.800 new connections to the gas grid. In 2020, PSG planned to build over 84.4 thousand new service lines. By the end of the year, nearly 222.4 thousand decisions defining the terms of connection were issued (and increase of 7% year on year) and 112.9 thousand service lines with a total length of 1,118.7 km were built.
In 2020, PSG commissioned 37 LNG regasification stations, including temporary and network support units. First permanent LNG regasification units were commissioned in the Łódź and Bydgoszcz provinces. In 2020, PSG obtained 35 liquefaction and regasification licences, and the total number of licences held by PSG at year-end 2020 was 52.
The volume of gas distributed using LNG regasification stations (including units stations supporting the distribution system) was 157.7 GWh (an increase of approximately 42% y/y) and the number of single distribution orders for the year was 21,562 (an increase of approximately 3% y/y).
Source: In-house analysis based on PSG data.
Volume of gas transmitted via the distribution system (mcm)
Length of own network, including service lines (thousand km) and number of customers (million)
* Customer − anyone receiving or drawing gas fuel under contract with a gas supplier.
A significant event that had an impact on the fulfilment of the company’s operator obligations was the execution by PSG, as the seller of last resort, of comprehensive gas fuel supply contracts in the name and on behalf of end customers for 535 exit points, following discontinuation of gas fuel supply by E2 Energia sp. z o.o. to customers connected to the distribution network.
PSG’s business is heavily regulated, with licensing of gas fuel distribution and LNG regasification services, and the obligation to have distribution tariffs approved by the President of URE. In 2020, the following tariffs were in force:
- Tariff No. 7, effective from March 15th 2019 to April 2nd 2020; the tariff reduced the average distribution fee by 5% relative to the previous tariff.
- Tariff No. 8, effective from April 3rd 2020 to January 31st 2021; the tariff increased the average distribution fee by 3.5% relative to the previous tariff.