The Association of Gas Transmission System Operators (FNB Gas) has re-elected Dr. Thomas Gößmann, Managing Director of Thyssengas GmbH, as Chairman of the Executive Board for the next two years at its General Meeting.
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FNB Gas welcomes the German government’s “Import Strategy for Hydrogen and Hydrogen Derivatives” (July 2024) on this fundamental aspect of the hydrogen ramp-up. It will not be possible to meet the demand for hydrogen in Germany without imports. In this respect, the import strategy contains many important aspects that we as an association support.
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A milestone for the energy transition: The Federal Network Agency today approved the construction of the Germany-wide hydrogen core network.
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In our statement, we support the position of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) and also make points that reflect the special features of natural gas grids.
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As part of the hearing on the Hydrogen Acceleration Act (WassBG) in the Committee for Climate Protection and Energy in the German Bundestag, Barbara Fischer, Managing Director of FNB Gas, emphasized the importance of acceleration measures for the rapid development of the hydrogen infrastructure.
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– First hydrogen pipelines to be commissioned as early as next year
– Length: 9,666 km, of which around 60% are lines to be converted
– Investment costs: 19.7 billion euros
– Feed-in volume: 278 TWhth
After intensive planning, the transmission system operators have submitted their joint application for the hydrogen core network to the Federal Network Agency. They are thus presenting a Germany-wide, expandable, efficient and quickly realizable hydrogen network for approval. The core grid will gradually connect central consumption and generation hubs as well as storage and import centres by 2032.
“The core network solves the chicken-and-egg problem by initially developing the infrastructure on the basis of a scenario worked out together with politicians. It lays the foundation for the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy. The TSOs are thus making an advance payment: the core network is the offer to the market, it comes for the market and continues to develop with it,” explains Barbara Fischer, FNB Gas Managing Director.
“The TSOs are united behind the concept of the core network. Together, we are applying for the complete core network and will build and operate it step by step. The core network is intended to optimally promote and support the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy in Germany and Europe“, affirms Dr. Thomas Gößmann, Chairman of the FNB Gas Executive Board.
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Tomorrow, the Bundestag will discuss the Hydrogen Acceleration Act (WassBG) at first reading. The law is crucial for the start and success of the hydrogen economy, because without infrastructure, an essential foundation for the hydrogen market is missing.
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The newly established Coordination Office for Integrated Gas and Hydrogen Network Development Planning (KO.NEP) officially starts work today.
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The TSOs expressly welcome and support the BNetzA’s approach of creating the necessary regulatory provisions for implementing the financing model of the EnWG draft for the hydrogen core network with the WANDA specification at this point in time.
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FNB Gas welcomes the BMWK’s consultation on the “Draft law to accelerate the availability of hydrogen and to amend further legal framework conditions for the hydrogen ramp-up”. The draft is aimed at a large number of facilities for the import, production and storage of hydrogen and underlines the public interest in the accelerated implementation of this important part of the hydrogen infrastructure.
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For the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 and the transformation of the energy system by then, gaseous energy sources are the second main pillar of the energy supply alongside renewable electricity generation. In order to achieve the climate targets, the transformation of the entire gas supply and thus the entire gas infrastructure to climate-neutral gases must therefore be made possible.
Continue reading → The forthcoming adoption of the amendment to the Energy Industry Act (EnWG) in the German Bundestag creates the legal framework for financing the hydrogen core network and anchors integrated network development planning for gas and hydrogen. The decision on the financing concept closes the remaining gap in the legal framework for the hydrogen core network.
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The TSOs are committed to the core grid and remain convinced that the core grid is a necessary prerequisite for the decarbonization of German industry and the economy. Unfortunately, crucial adjustments to the draft law were not taken into account
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Thank you for your interest in the Germany-wide survey of infrastructure requirements for the electricity and hydrogen grid. The market survey for hydrogen projects (WEB) received a total of 1724 project notifications. On expiry of the deadline on 22.03.2024, the reported data was write-protected and is considered reported. The registered projects remain in the associated database and can still be viewed – but not changed or deleted – by project registrants after March 22, 2024.
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In order not to jeopardize the success of core network planning to date, a few decisive changes to the draft legislation are necessary from an investor’s perspective. The main aim is to improve the risk assessment for investors.
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Hydrogen is a key prerequisite for the decarbonization of industry and thus for Germany as a business location. The energy transition cannot succeed without hydrogen. We therefore need an appropriate infrastructure as quickly as possible.
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The first joint survey of infrastructure requirements by the transmission system operators (TSOs) for the preparation of the scenario framework drafts for the electricity, gas and hydrogen network development plans starts today.
Continue reading → The electricity and gas TSOs are now setting a milestone for sector coupling with the first joint survey of infrastructure requirements for electricity and hydrogen. The network operators will use specially developed web applications to ask existing and potential customers about their future needs. Based on this information, the grid operators can develop the corresponding infrastructure in line with demand and thus ensure a reliable energy supply for the future.
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The financing framework already contains many good and important elements. However, as future core network operators, the transmission system operators consider a few but decisive changes to the proposed regulatory framework to be necessary in order to ensure capital market viability
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The transmission system operators (TSOs) generally welcome the development of a target picture of the integrated energy system, in which the infrastructure requirements are also clearly taken into account.
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FNB Gas e.V. today submitted the draft application for the hydrogen core network to the Federal Network Agency and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. “This marks the next milestone in the realization of the core network,” emphasizes Barbara Fischer, FNB Gas Managing Director.
Continue reading → Barbara Fischer, Managing Director of FNB Gas e.V., explains on the occasion of the adoption of the Act on the Adaptation of Energy Industry Law to EU Requirements and on the Amendment of Further Energy Law Provisions, which the Federal Government presented on 24 May 2023: “With today’s decision, the Bundestag is paving the way for a Germany-wide, expandable, efficient and quickly realizable hydrogen network with the target year 2032. The hydrogen core network is the desired signal for the hydrogen ramp-up. The transmission system operators published the initial planning status in July and are currently working flat out to finalize the planning so that implementation can begin next year.”
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FNB Gas e.V. is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. On this occasion, the association discussed with guests from politics, the energy sector and industry at the hydrogen infrastructure conference how the market ramp-up of hydrogen can be further accelerated together.
Continue reading → FNB Gas welcomes the submission of a draft bill for a legal and regulatory framework for financing the hydrogen core network.
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FNB Gas welcomes the draft legislation that enshrines the second stage of the development of a Germany-wide hydrogen network in law and thus further supports the acceleration of the hydrogen market ramp-up. Combining network development planning for the natural gas network and the future hydrogen network is in line with previous experience of transmission system operators, according to which both processes have multiple interactions and interdependencies and can therefore only be carried out efficiently in a single integrated network planning process.
Continue reading → The hydrogen core network is the starting signal for the hydrogen ramp-up. It solves the so-called chicken-and-egg problem and creates an infrastructure on the basis of which the hydrogen market can develop.
Continue reading → “TSOs and DSOs are pulling together in planning the hydrogen network. It is important that hydrogen infrastructure planning goes hand in hand at all levels. FNB Gas therefore welcomes the fact that hydrogen network planning is also progressing at the distribution network level. The FNB’s interregional hydrogen core network connects generation regions and import points with consumption regions. The downstream distribution networks take over the area supply.
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The transmission system operators welcome today’s adoption of the update of the National Hydrogen Strategy by the German cabinet. The strategy sets important guidelines for the rapid development of the national hydrogen infrastructure and for its integration into a European network.
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The German hydrogen core network as the first stage of the future hydrogen infrastructure is taking shape: With the planning status published today, the German transmission system operators (TSOs) present a first modeling result for the future supraregional hydrogen core network.
Continue reading → dena has presented a proposal to accelerate the development of the hydrogen start-up grid, which is also welcomed by the transmission system operators.
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dena has presented a proposal to accelerate the development of the hydrogen start-up grid, which is also welcomed by the transmission system operators.
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dena has presented a proposal to accelerate the development of the hydrogen start-up grid, which is also welcomed by the transmission system operators.
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The transmission system operators support the declared goal of the German government to accelerate the market ramp-up of hydrogen and its downstream products and to massively increase the level of ambition along the entire value chain by updating the National Hydrogen Strategy. To ensure the success of the energy transition and maintain its competitiveness, Germany as an industrial location needs reliable framework conditions for hydrogen ramp-up as quickly as possible in this highly dynamic environment.
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Munich (energate) – With the update of the National Hydrogen Strategy, the Federal Ministry of Economics has proposed the establishment of a hydrogen network company with state participation. Opposition came promptly from the Bavarian state government. In the Free State, the long-distance network operator bayernets is already working on a hydrogen start-up network. energate spoke with Stefanie Jacobi, Hydrogen Project Development and Deputy Head of Grid Strategy & Innovation at bayernets GmbH, about the project and the proposal from Berlin.
Continue reading → Munich, December 21, 2022 – The plans of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) for a national hydrogen grid company are incomprehensible, as they would slow down the urgently needed development of hydrogen transport networks without any recognizable added value. Against this background, bayernets GmbH welcomes the clear positioning of Bavaria’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Hubert Aiwanger, against the BMWK’s plans for a national hydrogen grid company.
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Transmission system operators (TSOs) today launch the consultation on the 2022-2032 gas network development plan (NEP Gas). The new LNGplus supply security variants take into account the profound changes in the energy supply situation. Measures to connect LNG plants and provide the necessary transport capacities are being implemented at full speed by the TSOs. The first grid connections for LNG plants will be completed by the end of 2022.
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Continue reading → How can the development of the supraregional hydrogen network be financed and accelerated? And what are grid operators doing to ensure that hydrogen can also contribute to energy supply security as quickly as possible?
Barbara Fischer, Head of Policy, Communication and Strategy at FNB Gas, and Christoph Diehn, Energy Policy and Hydrogen Officer at terranets bw, answer these questions in an interview with gwf Gas + Energie and talk about how a rapid build-up of the hydrogen network and thus the market ramp-up can succeed.
You can find the complete interview on the gwf Gas + Energie website and in the downloads below.
dena has presented a proposal to accelerate the development of the hydrogen start-up grid, which is also welcomed by the transmission system operators.
Continue reading → Germany must accelerate the ramp-up of hydrogen in order to secure supplies and promote climate protection. The hydrogen report submitted today by the transmission system operators in accordance with Section 28q of the German Energy Act (EnWG) shows how the necessary transport infrastructure can be built efficiently, quickly and in a targeted manner by integrating hydrogen network planning into the tried-and-tested gas network planning.
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FNB Gas welcomes early stakeholder engagement to design the implementation of the 65 percent renewable energy target for the installation of new heating systems beginning in 2024. Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, but also with a view to security of supply and ambitious climate protection targets, there is no time to lose now in driving forward the heat transition.
Continue reading → Since the publication of the National Hydrogen Strategy last year, the energy industry framework has changed fundamentally. This is what the National Hydrogen Council writes in a new key points paper. The existing high dependence of the German energy supply on fossil energy imports from Russia clearly shows the urgency of a sustainable diversification with regard to energy sources and suppliers. The importance of hydrogen has also increased once again as a result of the climate targets being brought forward.
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In recent weeks and months, the TSOs have been working flat out to provide initial answers to the new gas industry conditions resulting from Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine as part of the current gas network development plan.
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The transmission system operators welcome in principle that the European Commission, within the framework of its proposals on common rules for the internal markets for renewable gases and natural gas as well as hydrogen, wants to create the mandatory and timely necessary regulatory framework for the ramp-up of the hydrogen market in the EU.
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In a publication dated December 17, 2021, FNB Gas e.V. called on current and potential hydrogen network operators to participate in the development of the process for a common hydrogen network in Germany. The invitation of the transmission system operators was accepted by 12 potential hydrogen network operators and together with the transmission system operators they developed, intensively discussed and approved the process.
On March 21, the modeling for the hydrogen variant will be started by potential hydrogen network operators who have participated in the process development of the positive planning and/or have reported pipeline infrastructure for hydrogen transport as well as the transmission system operators. Until the modeling of the hydrogen variant of the Gas Network Development Plan 2022-2032 is completed in May 2022, regular workshops will be held among stakeholders to develop the hydrogen variant.
“Gaseous CO2-free or CO2-neutral energy sources are an integral part of the energy transition.” This is the conclusion reached by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology as a result of the “Dialogue Process Gas 2030”. energate spoke with Håvard Nymoen, Managing Director of Nymoen Strategieberatung, about what the commitment means for the gas industry and what steps will result from it.
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Pursuant to Section 28q EnWG, transmission system operators (TSOs), together with hydrogen network operators who have submitted a declaration pursuant to Section 28j (3) EnWG (opt-in H2 network operators), have the obligation to submit a report to the Federal Network Agency by September 1, 2022 at the latest on the current state of expansion of the hydrogen network and on the development of future network planning for hydrogen with the target year 2035 (hydrogen report).
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With the hydrogen network for a climate-neutral Germany (H2 network 2050), the transmission system operators (TSOs) are demonstrating that they can construct such a network efficiently and reliably at moderate investment costs. The H2 network 2050 has been further developed by the TSOs from the “Visionary Hydrogen Network” published in January 2020. This first vision of the future included many considerations, but without a network simulation for future hydrogen transport needs. The H2 network 2050 now presented, on the other hand, is based on detailed grid planning.
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