Integrated Report 2024

2024 marks the end of a cycle, with the completion of our CAP24corporate project. Launched in 2019, GRTgaz has achieved most of its objectives over the past five years, despite facing extraordinary and unprecedented events that have shaken our assumptions about the world of work and energy supply security. The first thing that comes to mind is Covid-19, which placed tremendous strain on our healthcare system between 2020 and 2021. The immediate consequence of the pandemic was a dramatic acceleration in remote work, leading to lasting shifts in how we perceive work and manage our communities. The Russia-Ukraine conflict, which began in February 2022, also comes to mind. This war abruptly halted Russian gas imports to Europe and deprived our continent of a key supply route.
We continue to feel the impact of this today. Paradoxically, these two major events revealed both our vulnerabilities and our potential.
Through it all, GRTgaz stayed its course. Its role and its public service missions to ensure the balance of the gas system have been strengthened. Its contribution to energy sobriety was demonstrated with the successful launch of the Ecogaz scheme. At the same time, we continued expanding our capacity to accept increasing volumes of renewable gases and to prepare networks and logistics for new sectors like hydrogen and CO₂.
This progress was exemplified in 2024 with our first investment decision to build a hydrogen transmission network between France and Germany. We have also respected the trajectory we set ourselves to limit our own emissions: 20% reduction of methane emissions between 2019 and today. By the end of 2024, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recognised us for the quality of our methane emissions reporting, placing us among the world’s top performers. Transparency creates trust. When we accurately report our emissions, we demonstrate our environmental responsibility and our commitment to fighting climate change. This credibility is essential. I want to commend our operational teams for their dedication over the past few years, and we can all take pride in the progress we’ve made and our capacity to adapt.

On all these subjects, we naturally need to move forward with humility and with the will to go faster and further. Throughout 2024, we’ve taken time to refocus, listening closely to the feedback and signals from our stakeholders: customers, partners, public authorities, and others. These voices often differ across industries, regions and generations. This complex situation is not unique to the energy sector, but our sector undoubtedly concentrates many of the contradictions, concerns and doubts that define our society in general. As a major player in the energy sector, GRTgaz has a responsibility to restore hope and prepare the infrastructures of the future that will enable us to design a new energy landscape that is secure, accessible and carbon-neutral. And, to embody this commitment, I decided it was time to adopt a new identity. GRTgaz is henceforth called NaTran. More than just a new logo, NaTran represents an ambition to promote national energy sovereignty. It also represents a collective commitment to ensuring that all low-carbon molecules contribute to the energy transition. It is a visible emblem, in the same colour as our bollards and signposting—the only physical and discreet sign of our network’s presence in the regions.

As we begin a new project (2025 to 2030), together we will write a new page in our history. Our goal is to make NaTran a benchmark for the transport of new gases in Europe by 2030. This new chapter aligns with a vision greater than ourselves: to rebuild, together with our employees and stakeholders, an energy model capable of supporting growth that remains within the planet’s limits in the 21st century. I joined this remarkable company to contribute to that mission, and I know I can rely on the professionalism and dedication of the women and men who serve the public interest here every day.