This agreement focuses on three main objectives: improving air quality, meeting the development needs of the Metropolis, and diversifying supplies and the energy mix.
A Metropolitan Smart Gas Grid, the first of its kind, will support this transformation and enhance the service provided to citizens and companies using gas.
The gas system indeed provides future solutions to optimize the ecological performance of the energy system and to promote the development of renewable gases in industry and transport.
About GRDF
An expert in gas energy and a key player in the energy transition, GRDF (Gaz Réseau Distribution France) is the main operator of the natural gas distribution network in France. Every day, GRDF fulfills its public service responsibilities by delivering natural gas energy to 11 million customers through the largest distribution network in Europe (197,928 kilometers). By ensuring the safety of people and property and the quality of service, GRDF designs, builds, operates, maintains, and develops this network in more than 9,528 communes. Committed to the energy transition alongside local authorities, GRDF works to make this network an ever more efficient industrial tool, currently capable of incorporating green gas, biomethane, deploying new uses for gas, including Natural Gas Fuel, and in the future, storing renewable energies in complementarity with other networks.
Press contact GRDF: Gregory Bertrand
Email: gregory.bertrand@grdf.fr
Phone: 06 70 99 70 34
To follow GRDF on Twitter: @GRDF
www.grdf.fr
About GRTgaz
GRTgaz is one of the European leaders in natural gas transportation and a global expert in gas transport networks and systems.
In France, GRTgaz owns and operates 32,450 km of buried pipelines and 28 compression stations to transport gas between suppliers and consumers (distributors or industries directly connected to the transport network). GRTgaz fulfills public service missions to guarantee the continuity of supply to consumers and markets transport services to network users.
In the PACA Region, GRTgaz employs 105 employees, operates 1,594 kilometers of network supplying 290 communes, and invested 23 million euros in 2016 in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur to modernize and develop its network.
As a player in the energy transition, GRTgaz invests in innovative solutions to adapt its network and reconcile competitiveness, supply security, and environmental preservation.
Press contact GRTgaz:
Mathieu Thouseau
Email: mathieu.thouseau@grtgaz.com
Phone: 04 78 65 58 41
To follow GRTgaz on Twitter: @GRTgaz
https://www.grtgaz.com
About the Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur
A world-renowned smart city, labeled Positive Energy Territory by the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition and Ambassador of Innovation by the European Commission, the Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur is innovative and pioneering in the energy transition and in improving air quality. In collaboration with local start-ups and SMEs, major industrial energy groups, and research players, Nice Côte d’Azur leads experiments that enhance residents’ lives, optimize the local energy system, and drive economic growth and job creation.
Press contact Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur:
Erwann Le Hô
Email: erwann.le-ho@nicecotedazur.org
Phone: 04 97 13 47 95
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– Thierry Trouvé, CEO of GRT Gaz
– Edouard Sauvage CEO of GRDF
– Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, President of the Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur, Deputy President of the Region-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
– Catherine Le Lan, Mayor of Vence
– Hervé Paul, Mayor of Saint Martin du Var, Chairman of the “Water treatment and energy” committee of the Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur
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Erwann LE HÔ
Press Officer
Public Relations Department
METROPOLE NICE COTE D’AZUR – 06364 Nice cedex 4
Tel: 04 97 13 47 95 – Mobile: 06 72 75 27 22
erwann.le-ho@nicecotedazur.org
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