Germany moves ahead with 9,040 km of hydrogen pipelines, paving the energy grid of the future.🇩🇪

Germany moves ahead with 9,040 km of hydrogen pipelines, paving the energy grid of the future.

🇩🇪 Germany is moving forward with the Hydrogen Core Network project, a national hydrogen pipeline network, about 9,040 kilometers long, to bridge together major production areas, import sources, storage depots and industrial centers.

The project is not fully operational, but it will gradually build and operate until 2032. About 56% will be converted from the original natural gas pipeline, and 44% will be rebuilt. About 18.9 billion euros is expected to be invested.

🌱 The key goal is to deliver hydrogen to industries that are difficult to reduce carbon, such as steel, chemicals, refineries and some types of transportation, with connections to hydrogen import routes from neighboring countries in the future.

When using hydrogen, it does not directly emit CO, but its life-cycle effects also depend on the energy source used to produce it. At the same time, burning hydrogen can pollute nitrogen oxides, so it is not automatically "clean of all dimensions."

🇪🇺 EU targets 2030, produces 10 million tons of domestic renewable hydrogen and imports another 10 million tons, but recent data suggest that capacity expansion is still far behind the target.

Hydrogen may not replace natural gas with every use, but there is a chance of a game changer in the heavy industrial sector - do you think it is worth a huge investment?

Sources: Bundesnetzagentur | European Commission | REPowerEU: 4 years on

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