Clean Hydrogen Coastline

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Clean Hydrogen Coastline is a proposed hydrogen pipeline system running in Germany.

Location

The pipeline is proposed to run from X to Y.

Project details

• Operator: EWE AG
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• Status: Proposed
• Start year: 2031
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• Financing: IPCEI
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Background

The clean hydrogen coastline pipeline project will link electrolysers in Bremen and Huntorf to the broader Hydrogen network in Germany.

As per the an EWE press release:

• In sub-project 1, “Clean Hydrogen Coastline – Electrolysis East Frisia”, EWE plans to build a 320 megawatt electrolysis plant in Emden, East Frisia. With this initiative, the energy service provider is planning to realise a project on a market-relevant scale for a future hydrogen value chain for the first time. Depending on the timing of the funding allocation and EWE’s investment decision, hydrogen from renewable energies could be produced in Emden for use in the system as soon as four years from now.
• In sub-project 2, “Clean Hydrogen Coastline – Electrolysis Bremen”, EWE intends to build a 50-megawatt electrolysis plant for green hydrogen production in Bremen. EWE plans to use the green hydrogen produced in Emden and Bremen for climate-neutral steel production at sites like the Bremen site of ArcelorMittal, Salzgitter AG and in Georgsmarienhütte.
• In the third sub-project, “Clean Hydrogen Coastline – Huntorf Storage”, EWE plans to link the hydrogen infrastructure to its storage cavern in Huntorf. The goal is to convert one of seven large underground cavities currently used for natural gas storage and establish surface facilities for hydrogen storage. This will make green gas available, especially when it is most needed. Large-scale hydrogen storage will also make the supply more reliable for hydrogen users. EWE is currently conducting research to demonstrate that hydrogen can be stored safely in salt caverns at its gas storage site in Rüdersdorf near Berlin.
• Sub-project 4, “Clean Hydrogen Coastline – H2 pipeline infrastructure northwest” aims to optimise the gas infrastructure for hydrogen in the north-west. EWE will construct and retrofit a number of pipeline sections to establish a connection to the future pan-European hydrogen transport network. This connection would supply hydrogen from production and storage facilities to users such as ArcelorMittal through the German hydrogen core network and the ‘European Hydrogen Backbone’.

The German government and the European Commission had classified the project as a strategic funding measure, a so-called IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) project. The route from the project is derived from the H2inframap, which displays a collection of hydrogen-related projects across Europe.