ENTSOG Transparency Platform

ENTSOG Transparency Platform is the regulatory transparency publication of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas — the association of the companies that actually run Europe's gas grids — and Datadory delivers it as structured, join-ready rows. Where most energy statistics describe the gas year after it ends, this platform carries the network as it operates: physical flows at every interconnection point, the nominations shippers submitted, the renominations they filed when plans changed, the allocations settled afterward, and the whole capacity family — technical, available, booked, firm versus interruptible, down to short-term UIOLI capacity released when a long-term holder does not use it.

The dimensions stack cleanly. Hundreds of interconnection points across roughly thirty transmission system operators, storage facilities and LNG terminals carried alongside border points, entry and exit directions kept distinct, energy quoted in kWh per day or per hour inside timezone-explicit windows, and records reaching back past 2007. Every row also carries the regulatory scaffolding: flags marking whether a record falls under the EU's CAM capacity-allocation mechanisms or CMP congestion-management procedures, plus a reference to the booking platform where applicable — so a capacity row explains not just how much room existed but under which market rules it was sold.

In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets across 159 viable industries, this record scores 9/10 for quality and anchors the operational end of the sixteen-record gas utilities set — the feed that measures the network while the others summarize it.

Amaze yourself with what's in it, then get the rows that matter:

Get a sample of this dataset

Three records captured during the August 2026 research pass, exactly as they arrive:

indicator             point                                operator   dir    value          gas day (CET)            status
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Physical Flow         Mosonmagyarovar (ITP-00043)          FGSZ       entry   5,795,827     2026-08-18 06:00 +02:00  Provisional
Physical Flow         UGS-1-Aggregated Storage (HU)        FGSZ       exit  145,569,370     2026-08-18 06:00 +02:00  Provisional
                      (UGS-00020)
Interruptible Avail.  Epe (DE) / UGS Gronau-Epe L2         Open Grid  exit           0     2007-10-01 00:00 +02:00  Available,
                      (UGS-00369)                          Europe                                                  unlimited

Read what the rows settle immediately. A Hungarian border point moved 5,795,827 kWh into the system over the gas day of 18 August 2026, flagged Provisional because settlement had not yet closed the day out — the record's update timestamp sits the following morning, and the status column exists precisely so downstream models know which figures are still movable. The second row is the same operator's aggregated storage exits at 145,569,370 kWh, an order of magnitude larger, which is the ordinary ratio between one border crossing and everything a country draws from storage in a day. The third row is not a flow at all: an interruptible-capacity record at a Dutch-German storage connection whose validity window opens in October 2007 and simply stays open, carrying a zero value and an unlimited marker — capacity that cannot run out is booked as an open-ended window, and the oldest windows captured reach back exactly that far.

One structural habit worth internalizing: flow rows and capacity rows share the same spine — point, operator, direction, unit, period, value — so a table that joins them on point and gas day produces utilization views without remapping anything.

Fifteen documented field groups carry every record, each verified against live data during the August 2026 research pass rather than inferred from documentation:

• Identity spine — point name and identifier, operator name and code, plus EECS/EIC codes for the operator and the individual point item, so joins survive renaming.
• Measurement — the indicator (Physical Flow, Nomination, Renomination, Allocation, or a capacity product), the entry-or-exit direction, the unit (kWh/d or kWh/h) and the value itself, with zero used where nothing moved.
• Time — a gas-day validity window with explicit timezone offsets on both ends, the CET-based gas day running 06:00 to 06:00, and a last-update timestamp on every record.
• Status — provisional-versus-final publication status, so models can treat unsettled figures differently from settled ones.
• Capacity vocabulary — firm versus interruptible, booked-available-unavailable standing, an unlimited flag for uncapped capacity, and interruption reporting fields (type, restoration information, calculation remarks) populated when capacity is knocked out.
• Regulatory flags — markers for records falling under CAM capacity-allocation mechanisms or CMP congestion-management procedures, plus the booking-platform reference where applicable.

The label-and-code pairing is deliberate throughout: display names travel with stable identifiers on both the point and operator dimensions, so a dashboard renders the friendly name while the join keys on the code.

Three extensions ship as additional fields on request: point-level reference attributes beyond the operational record — fuel category, cross-border connection pairing and market-zone membership, normalized onto each flow row; utilization derivations, meaning reported flow set against technical and available capacity at the same point and gas day, computed on delivery rather than guessed here; and the full enumeration of participating non-EU transmission systems beyond those observed in live records, confirmed per scope at sampling.

One normalization convention matters before you build on top: gas-day windows carry explicit timezone offsets, and Central European summer time shifts the offset mid-year, so a naive UTC cast will silently misalign winter and summer days by an hour. The delivered form keeps the offsets intact and provides the gas-day label alongside, which is the difference between a panel that lines up and one that drifts every March and October.

• Geography: all EU member-state transmission systems, plus connected non-EU operators observed in live records — Ukraine among them. Recording happens per interconnection point, per storage facility and per LNG terminal, so the border crossings, the caverns and the import terminals all speak the same schema.
• Temporal: gas-day validity windows as the base clock, with hourly detail available; captured records reach back past 2007, and the open-ended capacity windows observed make that depth visible in a single row. Values move through a provisional-to-final lifecycle rather than arriving frozen.
• Granularity: one record per point, per direction, per gas day (or hour), per operator. Nothing aggregates away the border crossing you care about — the finest cut is the only cut.

The honest caveat: participation by non-EU systems is demonstrated by observed records rather than formally enumerated here, and hourly resolution depends on the point and period — both confirmed at sampling instead of asserted.

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

Name the points, operators and horizon you want when you request the sample — the whole network, or a slice cut to your portfolio's border crossings. The sample ships first either way; the ongoing feed lands on whatever cadence your models run at, already shaped into the fifteen-group spine above.

An operational feed earns its keep in four specific jobs:

• Cross-border flow monitoring — entry and exit physical flows per interconnection point turn "Europe's pipelines were busy" into a number for the crossing you actually care about, with direction kept honest.
• Congestion and capacity analysis — technical, available and booked capacity sitting beside realized flows exposes where the network runs tight, and the CAM/CMP flags tell you which records belong to the formal capacity-market machinery.
• Supply-security tracking — aggregated storage exits and LNG terminal records give the physical layer under security-of-supply work, at the same granularity as the border flows feeding a country.
• European gas model backtesting — daily and hourly series stretching past 2007 support price-and-flow studies on a single harmonized schema, instead of a panel stitched from two dozen national publications.

Each job maps onto a persona page: market researchers consultants, investors quants, data scientists, journalists academics, and developers builders wiring the feed into a product.

Market researchers and consultants get the citable whole-network baseline — flows, nominations and capacity measured one way across every EU operator, which is the chapter-one table of any European gas study. Investors and quant researchers get the physical ledger under European gas prices, with the provisional-final status flag telling them which observations are safe to regress on and which are still moving. Data scientists and ML engineers get join-ready panels keyed on stable point and operator codes, direction and unit normalized, timezone offsets preserved — hours of cleaning already done. Journalists, academics and students get the operators' own regulatory publication rather than someone's chart of it, which is the version that survives review.

Start from the gas utilities data hub to see the rest of the sixteen-record set, then read the head-to-head with Britain's national portal for where pan-European breadth beats single-country depth.

Provenance note — published by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas, the association of Europe's gas transmission operators created under EU regulation to coordinate the network. Transparency is that mandate made concrete: the operators report their own operations, per point, per day, under one schema.

Methodology note — the gas day runs 06:00 to 06:00 CET-based, and values move through a status lifecycle from provisional to final, so a figure pulled early is a draft of itself. Reconcile flows against nominations and allocations rather than treating any single indicator as ground truth, and the three-way story — what shippers asked for, what physically moved, what was settled — holds together cleanly.

Completeness note — Datadory scores this record 9/10, and the field dictionary above maps fully to the verified field set captured during the August 2026 research pass. Point-level reference attributes, utilization derivations and the complete roster of participating non-EU systems are confirmed at sampling rather than claimed here.

Where to go next — pair the operational feed with the statistical layer so the network's pulse and the market's totals land in one frame: Eurostat's natural gas supply statistics for monthly national balances, the Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker for the assets underneath the flows, and the UK portal once a European panel needs the British system appended. The interconnection-point-flows and gas-day glossary entries define the vocabulary this page leans on.