Strategic partners

Essent	Essent is the largest energy company in the Netherlands. Belgium is the second home market. Essent provides his private and business customers with gas, electricity, heat and energy services. Essent (including its predecessors) has over 90 years experience of generating, trading, transmitting and supplying electricity. The company has also been in the business of supplying gas for 150 years. Essent is the leading producer of sustainable energy in the Netherlands. Essent strives to provide energy using the most affordable, reliable and sustainable means possible. At the same time, Essent continues to seek solutions that are better for people, the environment and society as a whole. Essent is part of the RWE Group.
DNV KEMA	DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability, with more than 2,300 experts in over 30 countries around the world, is committed to driving the global transition toward a safe, reliable, efficient, and clean energy future. With a heritage of nearly 150 years, DNV KEMA specializes in providing world-class, innovative solutions in the fields of business & technical consultancy, testing, inspections & certification, risk management, and verification.   As an objective and impartial knowledge-based company, DNV KEMA advises and support organizations along the energy value chain: producers, suppliers & end-users of energy, equipment manufacturers, as well as government bodies, corporations and non-governmental organizations. DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability is part of DNV, a global provider of services for managing risk with more than 10,000 employees in over 100 countries.
APX	APX is Europe’s premier provider of power exchange and clearing services for the wholesale market, operating transparent platforms in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Belgium. APX provides exchange trading, central clearing & settlement and benchmark data and industry indices distribution services to over 150 members from more than 15 countries. Belpex N.V. of Belgium is a 100% subsidiary of APX. APX shares the vision of the EU for the realisation of a single, integrated market. APX therefore focus on delivering an integrated electricity market through its involvement in projects such as the North West European Price Coupling and the establishment of an integrated European intraday market. It will remain a leading force in the design process of market coupling and act as one of its daily operators.
Enel	Enel is Italy's largest power company, and Europe's second listed utility by installed capacity. It is an integrated player which produces, distributes and sells electricity and gas. After the acquisition of the Spanish utility Endesa, Enel is now present in 23 countries with a generating capacity of approximately 95,000 MW, serving about 61 million power and gas customers. Listed on the Milan stock exchange since 1999, Enel is the Italian company with the highest number of shareholders, some 1.2 million retail and institutional investors in 2008.   Enel is also the second-largest Italian operator in the natural gas market, with approximately 2.7 million customers and a 10% market share in terms of volumes (on December 31, 2009).
Eni	Eni is an integrated energy company. Active in 77 countries, with a staff of 78,400 employees, it operates in oil and gas exploration, production, transportation, transformation and marketing, in petrochemicals, oilfield services construction and engineering.
Gasterra	GasTerra is an international company trading in natural gas. It operates on the European energy market and has a significant share of the Dutch gas market. It also provides gas-related services. The company has a strong purchasing position and has over 40 years' experience in purchasing and selling natural gas.   GasTerra fulfils a public role regarding the implementation of the 'small fields policy'. The aim of this policy is to encourage the production of Dutch natural gas from the smaller gas fields. GasTerra is customer-focused and strives to maintain long-term relationships with market players and to put in place sales contracts which express the market value of the natural gas.   GasTerra is committed to sustainable development as a guiding principle for its strategy and actions. The economic and social value of natural gas as a source of energy gives the company an important role in utilising the domestic gas reserves and in energy supply in the Netherlands and the EU. GasTerra promotes the safe and efficient consumption of natural gas and takes active steps to seek further applications. The company recognises the great importance of energy transition to sustainable energy supplies and initiates projects in that context.   All actions are based on a code of conduct, the cornerstones of which are integrity and respect.
NV Nederlandse Gasunie	N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie is a gas infrastructure company. Gasunie owns one of the largest high pressure gas pipeline grids in Europe, consisting of 12,000 kilometers of pipeline, dozens of installations and approximately 1,100 gas receiving stations. In 2005, gas throughput totalled more than 95 billion cubic metres.   Through its Gas Transport Services B.V. subsidiary, Gasunie provides the management and development of the gas transport network. Gasunie also offers other services in the gas infrastructure field, including gas storage. Gasunie operates safely, efficiently, profitably and sustainably. Partly because of the reliability and strategic location of the Gasunie transport network in relation to growing international gas flows, the Netherlands can grow to become the 'gas junction' of North-West Europe.