network use

• Negotiating access to transmission, distribution and storage assets
• Understanding the implications of terms of access and tariffs, including the costs of balancing charges
• Identifying and overcoming barriers to market entry, including getting access to capacity and gas
• Understanding network infrastructure and physical gas flows
• Matching supply and demand, including use of storage and traded markets
• Managing traded market risk and counterparty exposure
• Forecasting demand accurately
• Building and administering a customer portfolio
• Developing appropriate and flexible IT systems to support customer operations and communicate with transporter and storage systems
• Billing customers accurately and managing credit risk
• Achieving appropriate operational terms from the network such as gas quality, pressure and flexible off-take profile
• Introducing new customer connections to the network on fair terms
• Managing public service obligations and standards of service