Gas market organization based on the balancing group model

The possibility of creating a gas market based on the balancing group model to achieve a favorable commercial balancing is presented in the paper. The role of the balancing group leader concerning the day-ahead and intraday balancing of the gas system is exposed. Furthermore, the real day deviation between nominated and realized gas quantities, for the level of a real balancing group which acts at the Croatian gas market and its members, is analyzed in this paper. Special attention is paid to the ways of imbalance distribution among the balancing group members regarding absolute deviation of a single member and the causer-helper principle.