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GERG - Groupe Européen de Recherche Gazière

GERG

The scope of GERG covers any scientific activity regarding research, development, demonstration and information exchange issues relevant to the energy and gas sector in Europe, including all parts of the value chain: supply, transmission, storage, distribution and utilisation.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Proposal for a legislative act on methane leakage in the energy sector

26 Jan 2021

The European Gas Research Group (GERG) welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation, while fully supporting the aims of the Commission in reducing methane emissions from all sources. The mid and downstream gas industry has been actively detecting and repairing methane leaks since its inception, for both safety and environmental reasons. It supports the development of leak detection technologies and has consistently used them in LDAR, and more recently in operational practice for methane emissions reduction. GERG recently developed a Methane Emissions Estimation Methodology for DSOs, that was expanded using Marcogaz’ 2005 methodology for TSOs, LG terminals and UGS as a foundation for a standard assessment framework for all 4 segments in the gas value chain . R&D projects are also underway on technologies for methane emissions measurement for TSOs, LNG terminals and UGS. These aim to better reconcile top down and localised measurements. For reaching level 4 reporting according to OGMP 2.0, more R&D work is required to improve approaches to quantify emissions, while continuing to reduce them. Continuing to address the challenges of emission reduction means continuing industry-led R&D activities, focusing on both site-related and network related emissions. While the former benefit from a more focused approach due to their limited perimeter, the challenges for the latter remain due to their wide coverage. The industry in general, and GERG due to its R&D mission in particular, are open to collaborate with the International Methane Emissions Observatory to tackle these complex issues. It is important that this work addresses, upfront, the issue of updating core methodologies, and understanding the uncertainties relating to the differing approaches to detection and measurement. In summary legislation must allow time to improve science and clarify leak distributions to drive LDAR, and understand measurement uncertainties, to support MRV activities which will in turn continue to drive down emissions. Our detailed response is in the attached file.
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Response to EU Methane Strategy

5 Aug 2020

Attached is feedback from the European Gas Research Group (GERG)
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Response to A EU hydrogen strategy

8 Jun 2020

The European Gas Research Group, GERG welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to this consultation, and this is provided in the attached document.
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