Gas Utilities Data Provider - Storage, Price, Flow and Infrastructure Datasets Delivered · Head-to-head
ENTSOG Transparency Platform vs National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK)
Which gas utilities data provider - storage, price, flow and infrastructure datasets delivered data fits your job: ENTSOG Transparency Platform, or National Gas Transmission Data Portal. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
ENTSOG Transparency Platform
National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK)
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | ENTSOG Transparency Platform | National Gas Transmission Data Portal |
|---|---|---|
indicator | documented | not in this set |
pointLabel / pointKey | documented | not in this set |
operatorLabel / operatorKey | documented | not in this set |
directionKey | documented | not in this set |
unit | documented | not in this set |
value | documented | not in this set |
periodFrom / periodTo | documented | not in this set |
flowStatus | documented | not in this set |
capacityType / capacityBookingStatus | documented | not in this set |
isCamRelevant / isCmpRelevant | documented | not in this set |
Supply from entry points | not in this set | documented |
Published time of each flow value | not in this set | documented |
Coverage, side by side
| ENTSOG Transparency Platform | National Gas Transmission Data Portal | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | All EU member-state transmission systems plus connected non-EU operators (Ukraine's TSO appears in the platform's own records), reported per interconnection point, storage facility and LNG terminal | Great Britain only - National Transmission System entry points, LDZ offtakes, storage and LNG sites |
| Temporal | Live records reaching back to October 2007, with hourly detail available; day-ahead values carry provisional status until finalized | Current gas day plus forecasts running seven days ahead; historical archives organized by category |
| Granularity | Per interconnection point, per direction (entry or exit), per transmission system operator, per gas day or hour | Two-minute instantaneous flows at terminals; daily and hourly publications for capacity, demand, balancing and quality |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| ENTSOG Transparency Platform | National Gas Transmission Data Portal | |
|---|---|---|
| Geography | All EU member-state transmission systems plus connected non-EU operators (Ukraine's TSO appears in the platform's own records), reported per interconnection point, storage facility and LNG terminal | Great Britain only - National Transmission System entry points, LDZ offtakes, storage and LNG sites |
| Temporal reach | Live records reaching back to October 2007, with hourly detail available; day-ahead values carry provisional status until finalized | Current gas day plus forecasts running seven days ahead; historical archives organized by category |
| Granularity | Per interconnection point, per direction (entry or exit), per transmission system operator, per gas day or hour | Two-minute instantaneous flows at terminals; daily and hourly publications for capacity, demand, balancing and quality |
| Scale | Roughly 30 transmission system operators x hundreds of interconnection points x multiple indicators since 2007 - millions of records | About 12,300 documented data items across some 20 dictionary categories |
| Field dictionary | 35 documented fields on each operational record, definitions verified | 11 documented fields across flow and gas-quality reports, definitions verified |
| Subjects covered | Physical flow, nomination, renomination, allocation, technical and available and booked capacity, firm versus interruptible, UIOLI short-term, interruptions and restorations | Flows, demand, linepack, entry and exit capacity, balancing, shrinkage, storage, LNG, notices, prices, weather and calorific value |
| Formats delivered | JSON, CSV, XML | JSON, CSV, Excel workbooks, dashboard views |
| Best for | Cross-border EU gas benchmarking, interconnector utilization, capacity-market research | Live GB system monitoring, gas-quality tracking, demand and linepack studies |
Or take both in one feed
They stack cleanly into a Europe-plus-home-market workflow joined by nothing fancier than energy units and time. A trading desk can frame the continental picture from ENTSOG - Hungarian entry flows, aggregated storage withdrawals, interruptible availability at Gronau-Epe - then track the British leg through the portal's two-minute flows and predicted closing linepack. A utility strategist can benchmark GB entry-capacity behavior against EU booked-capacity norms. A researcher modeling the post-2022 restructuring can run ENTSOG's series back to 2007 against the UK portal's category archives for the parallel British story.
Two practical notes from the records. Align clocks before joining, because one side stamps CET-based gas-day windows running six-to-six while the other publishes local timestamps minute by minute. And normalize to a common energy basis - both report in kWh, but daily rates and per-period readings do not sit beside each other until converted. Or take both in one feed.
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Fair questions
Is ENTSOG Transparency Platform better than National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK)?
For anything that crosses a border, yes; for live British system operations, no. ENTSOG covers every EU member-state transmission system plus connected non-EU operators, per interconnection point back to 2007, while the UK portal covers Great Britain alone but resolves flows to two-minute readings and adds calorific value, Wobbe index and linepack. Sample both and match each to the question.
What do ENTSOG Transparency Platform and National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK) have in common?
Structure. Both dictionaries reduce a transmission system to an asset identifier, a timestamp, a quantity in kWh and a status flag - 35 documented fields per ENTSOG operational record, 11 across the UK portal's flow and quality reports, all definitions verified. Their subjects barely intersect beyond that: European border flows and capacity markets versus one national system's control-room telemetry.
Which dataset covers more geography, ENTSOG Transparency Platform or National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK)?
[ENTSOG Transparency Platform](/datasets/gas-utilities/entsog-transparency-platform), decisively. It spans all EU member-state transmission systems plus participating non-EU operators such as Ukraine's, reported per interconnection point, storage facility and LNG terminal. The UK portal stops at Great Britain's National Transmission System. Any study containing a non-British border needs ENTSOG; the UK portal cannot follow.
Which has finer granularity, ENTSOG Transparency Platform or National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK)?
The UK portal. Its instantaneous flows resolve to two-minute readings at terminals such as Easington and St Fergus, with forecasts running seven days ahead. [ENTSOG Transparency Platform](/datasets/gas-utilities/entsog-transparency-platform) works in gas days with optional hourly detail - fine enough to watch a border point swing across a day, coarse next to two minutes.
Do ENTSOG Transparency Platform and National Gas Transmission Data Portal (UK) overlap at all?
Only structurally. Both report physical gas movement in energy units and both flag provisional or amended values, but there is no shared identifier between an EU interconnection point and a GB entry point, and their specialties do not intersect: ENTSOG holds the capacity market, the UK portal holds gas chemistry and linepack. Treat them as complementary layers over different geographies.
Which one should a gas analyst sample first?
Sample both, pick by fit. Analysts working European interconnection, capacity markets or multi-country storage start with ENTSOG; analysts running GB system balance, gas-day forecasting or quality-adjusted billing start with the UK portal. Teams needing both horizons can take them merged into a single delivered feed.