Transmission

• Balancing the network safely and efficiently when there is no longer direct access to traditional gas supply contracts
• Defining, allocating and where necessary rationing capacity, including consideration of interruptible services
• Designing (and getting approval) for tariff methodologies and new connection policy
• Managing a constructive regulatory relationship, including the negotiation of price or revenue controls
• Shaping and responding to new incentives for efficiency, including benchmarking operations to demonstrate (or encourage) productivity
• Ensuring security of supply and reviewing or establishing appropriate security standards and criteria
• Investing wisely in a more fragmented industry with different information and physical flows
• Protecting new or old assets against the risk of "stranding"
• Facilitating wholesale competition and traded markets
• Achieving interoperability with neighbouring transmission or upstream systems, including gas quality, contractual and information issues
• Reorganising the business and developing new skills such as market operations, regulatory and shipper management
• Developing appropriate and flexible IT systems to support shipper operations
• Billing shippers accurately and managing credit risk