A network for green hydrogen is to be created in the North Sea

Wind farm “DanTysk”

Offshore wind edges including substation. Power generation like this could be used directly at sea to produce green hydrogen.

(Photo: dpa)

Berlin The North Sea should one day become a “green power plant”. Offshore parks, wind farms on the open sea, should generate emission-free electricity and thus also produce climate-neutral hydrogen on site. A question that has not yet been answered: How does this “green” hydrogen most efficiently get into the supply grids of mainland Europe?

The gas network operators Gascade and Gasunie, among others, have been working on an answer for almost two years. Together with the energy companies RWE and Shell, they have signed a declaration of intent for the construction of the “Aquaductus” hydrogen pipeline. In the future, the offshore pipeline will bring together the energy source from different parts of the North Sea and transport it to land.

“Aquaductus is intended to become an important busbar within a future hydrogen network in the North Sea,” says Ulrich Benterbusch, Managing Director of Gascade. “Ultimately, the network could be used to transport hydrogen from the Scottish offshore wind farms or from the Dogger Bank in the north-western border area of ​​the German Bight to the German coast,” he explains.

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