PREPARE - Energy forecasting, network management and optimization

"GRTgaz is PREPARING for the future by developing smart grids, exploring the place of gas in future energy mixes and preparing tomorrow's steering and sizing tools." (Christophe Olry, Program Coordinator)

Enjeux majeurs

  • Supporting the transformation of gas transmission and distribution networks in response to the integration of renewable and low-carbon energies
  • Prepare for the multi-energy coupling (gas, electricity, heat) that has become necessary for the energy transition, in particular through intelligent, dynamic control.
  • Take full account of synergies between gas, electricity and heat in tomorrow's energy mixes
  • Integrate economic, political, technological and climatic uncertainties into investment trajectories, on the one hand to obtain mixes that are more resilient to change, and on the other to better estimate flexibility needs.
  • Improve the operational and economic performance of network management

Périmètre

  • Smart grid
  • Dynamic network modeling
  • Reverse
  • Multi-energy
  • Prospective network modeling
  • Future energy mixes
  • Optimization of
    sizing and infrastructure management

Leviers clés

  • Integrate new gases into network dimensioning and control tools, and develop new prototypes and mathematical models
  • Develop backflow stations to optimize biomethane injections into networks
  • A global vision of network evolution
  • Carry out multi-energy prospective studies for the 2050 horizon

Perspective 2030

  • Integrate new gases into network dimensioning and control tools, and develop new prototypes and mathematical models
  • Develop backflow stations to optimize biomethane injections into networks
  • A global vision of network evolution
  • Carry out multi-energy prospective studies for the 2050 horizon