GERG - The European Gas Research Group

Avenue Palmerston 4
BE-1000 Brussels
BELGIUM
Tel: +32 2 230 8017 Fax: +32 2 230 6788
Website: www.gerg.info

Main Contact
   David PINCHBECK, General Secretary
   Email: gerg[at]arcadis.be

Year of Creation: 1961

No of Staff: 1.5

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Private Funding: 100%

GERG, the European Gas Research Group, is a non-profit organisation, founded in 1961 to strengthen the gas industry within the European Community by promoting effective, gas-related RD&D. Membership comprises fifteen major gas research organisations from ten European countries, each actively involved in natural gas research and development. The members serve a European gas industry which has the responsibility for supplying more than 80 million domestic, commercial, industrial and power generation customers.

Crucially, GERG represents a significant European reservoir of specialist knowledge, including in excess of 2000 R&D staff - a high quality research resource, which is second to none.

GERG's stated objectives are:

• to exchange ideas and information;
• to explore the potential for collaboration;
• to set up collaborative R,D&D projects;
• and to enable efficient technology transfer and exploitation in Europe.

Areas of expertise: Aspects of natural gas R&D:

• Fundamental studies;
• Transmission & Storage;
• Distribution;
• Utilisation;
• Information dissemination.

Target audience: All energy users, European Commission staff and MEPs.

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