AquaDuctus
Offshore hydrogen backbone in the North Sea
- Central pipeline for offshore H2 imports to Germany
- Nucleus of the European offshore H2 network
- Transport capacity: 20 GW
- Length: 500km
- IPCEI project
AquaDuctus
With AquaDuctus, a scalable, needs-based infrastructure is to be implemented in two phases:
In the first phase, AquaDuctus will connect the first large hydrogen wind farm site, SEN-1, with a generation capacity of around one gigawatt. SEN-1 is located in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) northwest of Heligoland. The 200-kilometer-long pipeline will bring the green hydrogen generated from offshore wind power ashore and transport it via the onshore hydrogen infrastructure to the German mainland and to European consumers. On land, AquaDuctus will run for around 100 kilometers to the German-Dutch border.
In a second section, further future hydrogen wind farm locations are to be connected. AquaDuctus will then extend to the tip of the so-called Entenschnabel in the German EEZ. This will enable AquaDuctus to connect to neighboring offshore hydrogen infrastructures in Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom. This opens the door to pipeline-based offshore hydrogen transportation across Europe.
