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EU H2 project investments. At the European Clean
Hydrogen Alliance's Hydrogen Forum event in late 2021,
the alliance unveiled more than 1,000 projects to promote
a H2
projects for H2
value chain in Europe. These investments include
production, transmission and distribution,
and use in industry, transport, energy systems and buildings.
Most of these projects, approximately 36%, are H2
production facilities (FIG. 10). These include several different
avenues towards H2
being through green H2
sources to produce H2
A separate investment that could complement the European
Hydrogen Backbone project is the Central European
Hydrogen Corridor. The capital-intensive project would
include the construction of more than 1,700 km of pipeline
that would deliver green H2
Germany and other EU nations. At the time of this publicaproduction,
the primary path
production (i.e., using renewable
). At 19%, the mobility sector holds
the second largest market share in active projects, followed
by industrial applications (14%) and transmission
and distribution (13%).
According to the GEI database, most active H2
projects in
Europe are in Germany, followed by the UK, Spain, Netherlands,
Norway and France (FIG. 11). However, these projects,
and the wide-scale use of H2
, face several hurdles, chiefly:
* A large-scale infrastructure buildout, requiring
a critical mass in investment and cooperation
among corporate and country partners
* The development of an enabling regulatory
framework for H2
markets and source certification
* Technology breakthroughs to offer new solutions
for producing, using, storing and transporting
green molecules
* A significant scale-up in renewable power capacities
* Necessary, further reductions in H2
The following will provide major H2
tives by both region and individual countries in the EU.
European Hydrogen Backbone. For the large scale consumption
of H2
in the EU, an intricate, vast H2 infrastructure
and delivery system is needed. The European Hydrogen
Backbone initiative is to build a network of supply lines to
connect H2
supplies to demand centers throughout Europe
(FIG. 12). If built, the vast network would include the construction
of 6,800 km of pipelines by 2030, reaching nearly
23,000 km by 2040. Depending on the use of existing
pipelines in the region (i.e., converting existing assets to
transport H2
vs. building new pipelines), the total costs for
the system could range between €27 B-€64 B.
FIG. 12. A mature EHB can be created by 2040.
Tarifa
Almería
Palermo
Athens
European Hydrogen Backbone initiative 2021, supported by Guidehouse
Madrid
Valencia
production costs.
projects and initiaBordeaux
Bilbao
Marseille
Barcelona
Rome
tion,
the project partners-EUSTREAM, Gas TSO of Ukraine,
NET4GAS and OGE-are conducting a technical feasibility
study. If built, the H2
supplies from the Ukraine to
Country analysis. The following are notable active projects
and initiatives being developed in Western Europe.
highway could be operational by 2030.
Export/Import H2 pipelines (repurposed)
H2 pipelines by conversion of existing natural gas pipelines (repurposed)
Newly constructed H2 pipelines
Subsea H2 pipelines (repurposed or new)
Countries within scope of study
Countries beyond scope of study
Potential H2 storage: salt cavern
Potential H2 storage: depleted field
Potential H2 storage: aquifer
City, for orientation purposes
Energy island for offshore H2 production
Dublin
Cork
Manchester
Hamburg
Amsterdam
London
Cologne
Frankfurt
Paris
Munich
Lyon
Milan
Venice
Ljubljana
Vienna
Bratislava
Budapest
Leipzig
Prague
Krakow
Berlin
Warsaw
Gdansk
Edinburgh
Göteborg
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Helsinki
Tallinn
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