Flow – making hydrogen happen
will use existing infrastructure to transport
large quantities of hydrogen as early as 2025.
- 1600 km from the Baltic coast to Baden-Württemberg
- Rapid conversion from natural gas to H2 pipelines from 2025
- Large feed-in/transport capacity of up to 20 GW
- Connections to many H2 initiatives along the route:
- Green Octopus Central Germany, MosaHYc
- Hydrogen for Baden-Württemberg, HyPipe Bavaria
Flow - making hydrogen happen
With Flow – making hydrogen happen, a European integrated, large-scale transportation option for 100% hydrogen is being created. Onshore hydrogen production in the Baltic Sea region and offshore cooperation projects with Sweden, Finland and Denmark will be linked to hydrogen markets in Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and France via Flow – making hydrogen happen. The pipelines run from the Baltic Sea through the eastern German states and Hesse to Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. This opens up far-reaching opportunities for regional grid connections to Flow – making hydrogen happen.
Flow – making hydrogen happen will not only be one of the largest German hydrogen projects, but also one of the fastest. The conversion of the first sections from natural gas to hydrogen will already be implemented by the end of 2025. Flow – making hydrogen happen will thus make a significant contribution to the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy in the long-distance pipeline sector. This speed is only possible because the relevant infrastructure is already in place. The affected pipeline sections only need to be converted and integrated into a hydrogen economy. The construction of new pipeline sections is limited to individual, shorter sections.
