Consultation with players in the CH₄, H₂ & CO₂ markets: prospects for the future

A long-term approach to discussions to help assess transport infrastructure requirements

After a first successful consultation dedicated to H₂ market players in 2021, NaTran and Teréga are joining forces once again to make a success of this dynamic interaction and extend it to 2025.
On 4 April 2025, the two French gas transmission operators will be launching a consultation process aimed at all stakeholders and players in the H₂, CO₂ and CH₄ markets.

The purpose is to strengthen their shared vision of transmission needs by 2035, but also to liven up the ecosystem by providing medium- and long-term visibility on the CH₄, H₂ and CO₂ transmission infrastructures of current and future customers, and finally to agree on certain hypotheses with a view, in particular, to feeding into the Ten-Year Development Plans (PDD).

This consultation process is meant to be renewed on a regular basis, to ensure that the evolving needs of stakeholders are taken into account and to guarantee that this co-construction serves the general interest.
 

NaTran and Teréga are committed to:

• submit the methodological framework and hypotheses for their various analyses to an extensive consultation in order to fulfil their current missions;
• prefigure the incorporation into French law of the 4th European Gas Package on the hydrogen and low-carbon gas markets.

Discussions with stakeholders and players will be based on the narratives, scenarios and analyses shared by NaTran and Teréga in order to:

• Strengthen their analyses of CH₄ flow trends up to 2035;
• Shed light on the H₂ roadmap;
• Feed the CO₂ roadmap.

Who is it for?

To gather contributions from stakeholders and players in the CH_4, H₂ and CO₂ markets, NaTran and Téréga will be initiating a consultation on 4 April 2025, open to all stakeholders and players in these markets until the end of June, whether they are network operators, manufacturers, infrastructure managers, public and institutional players or professional associations and academic players...

What dates?

• 4 April 2025: a webinar to launch the process and provide information.
• 13 May 2025: one day of half-day workshops:
  • Morning: a specific workshop on the hydrogen carrier, more particularly focusing on development scenarios on this market;
  • Afternoon: a specific workshop on CO₂ logistics.
• 3 June 2025: a workshop on the methodological framework and the hypotheses to be taken into account when analysing changes in CH₄ flows up to 2035.

The webinar

During the initial webinar, NaTran and Teréga will set out:

• The approach and the framework of hypotheses on which they propose to base their prospective analyses;
• Several main narratives or scenarios for national and import/export paths.

The purpose of the consultation is to make sure the range of scenarios covers the uncertainties and developments envisaged by the various stakeholders, and then to consolidate it with input from the players who are active on the market.

This input will be gathered via questionnaires, technical discussions during workshops and bilateral meetings on request.
It is this framework of agreed hypotheses that NaTran and Terega will subsequently use in their various analyses. 

During the workshops devoted to H₂, CO₂ and CH₄, NaTran and Teréga suggest consulting the experts on the various subjects in greater depth. This should make it possible to consolidate the framework of hypotheses in detail and also to discuss the tools and methods NaTran and Teréga intend to use to conduct the various analyses.

• To get aggregate information from NaTran and Teréga on the outlook for changing needs and their impact on the transmission infrastructure
• To co-construct the analytical framework (hypotheses) on which NaTran and Téréga will base their vision of the future of energy infrastructures.
• To contribute to the right sizing of networks, built as close as possible to their needs and at the right cost.
• To discuss with all the other participants.