Capacity Planner

  • Are you minimizing your capacity reservation costs?

  • Are you maximizing the advantage of non-contemporary withdrawals?

  • Can you measure how risky a reservation is for a given point in the network?

E4C Capacity Planner helps users find the sales scenario which minimizes the fixed costs and penalties associated with capacity reservation. Moreover, by working on both the Exits and individual PODs, Capacity Planner enables all gas operators to take advantage of all their portfolio synergies by optimizing local network reservation, and thus reducing transport and logistics costs.

Objectives
 
Key Features
  • Optimization of capacity reservation costs
  • Logistics cost management
  • Optimization by PoD or Exits
  • Thermal Algorithms (Citygate)
  • Minimizing fixed and expected costs linked to capacity reservation
 
Business Problem

Capacity reservation is a core activity for any shipper. Competition is cutting margins on the commodity: it’s therefore vital to optimize the management of this important logistic parameter. Transport capacity planning relies heavily on the ability to foresee sales volumes. This activity requires consistent methods of analysis of historical data and technological devices. The forecast activity should also be integrated with simulation, in order to compare the requirements corresponding to different scenarios.

i4C Solution

Capacity Planner lets you to identify the right scenario that minimizes fixed and uncertain costs related to capacity reservation. Working both on the Exits and on the points of delivery, Capacity Planner makes each operator of Gas market obtain optimal estimates of their capacity needs, overcoming the zero-penalties point of view and helping to reduce the systematic overestimation / over-caution suffered by many companies in the industry.