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Key milestone for the hydrogen ramp-up: Transmission system operators submit official application for core network
– 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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