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Gas TSO of Ukraine, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia announce partnership to develop hydrogen
KYIV. Sept 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) – EUSTREAM (the Slovak gas TSO), Gas TSO of Ukraine (GTSOU), NET4GAS (the Czech gas TSO) and OGE (a leading German gas TSO) have joined forces to develop a hydrogen highway through Central Europe.
"The focus of the joint initiative called the Central European Hydrogen Corridor is on developing a hydrogen "highway" in Central Europe for the transport of hydrogen from promising future major hydrogen supply areas in Ukraine that offers excellent conditions for large-scale, green hydrogen production via Slovakia and the Czech Republic to large hydrogen demand areas in Germany and the EU. The hydrogen corridor will also enable transporting hydrogen between hydrogen production facilities and hydrogen consumers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia," GTSOU said in a press release.
Deputy CEO for Development and Transformation of Gas TSO of Ukraine Pawel Stanczak said that "hydrogen is likely to play a significant role by the year 2050, when the European economies are expected to reach carbon-neutrality, so we have to start exploring the opportunities today."
"Hydrogen is a promising technology at the early stage of economy-wide adoption. Partnership with the neighboring TSOs could provide great synergies for green hydrogen development," he said.
"Our robust transmission system would offer a flexible and very cost-effective way of transporting green energy further to EU markets. We are committed to making our infrastructure hydrogen-ready and thus strongly contribute to the EU’s decarbonisation objectives,", EUSTREAM General Director Rastislav Ňukovič said.
The project promoters believe that the Central European Hydrogen Corridor can be created partially by repurposing existing gas infrastructure, combined with targeted investments in new dedicated hydrogen pipelines and compressor stations. This enables dedicated hydrogen transport over long distances at an affordable cost. The project promoters have already started to explore the technical feasibility of creating a Central European Hydrogen Corridor for the transportation of up to 120 GWh per day of pure hydrogen from Ukraine to Germany by 2030.
NET4GAS Managing Director Andreas Rau expects that "this strong international partnership will deliver its first results on the feasibility, capacity and cost of such transportation of hydrogen as soon as next year."
OGE CEO Jörg Bergmann said that "without the widespread use of hydrogen alongside renewable energy, we will be unable to reach our climate targets." "The Central European Hydrogen Corridor is an important step on the way there as it offers the possibility of delivering substantial amounts of hydrogen to German industrial demand centers already by 2030," he said.
