AquaDuctus Hydrogen Pipeline
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AquaDuctus Hydrogen Pipeline is a proposed offshore hydrogen pipeline that will connect the UK and Germany to an offshore hydrogen production facility.[1]
Location
The pipeline will run from a future offshore green hydrogen production facility between Germany and UK to Helgoland, Germany and the Dogger Sand Bank, UK.[2]
Project details
- Operator: GASCADE Gastransport GmbH
- Owner: Gasunie, RWE AG, GASCADE Gastransport GmbH, Shell[3]
- Parent company: Gasunie, RWE AG, GASCADE Gastransport GmbH, Shell
- Capacity: Up to 10 GW of energy production capacity[4]
- Length: 400 km[1]
- Phase 1: Details uncertain
- Phase 2: 150 km[5]
- Phase 3: Details uncertain
- Diameter:
- Status: Proposed
- Start year: 2035[4]
- Cost:
- Financing: Has applied for IPCEI funding as of Jan, 2023[5]
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
The AquaDuctus Hydrogen Pipeline is part of the green hydrogen infrastructure mega-project "AquaVentus". This broad project covers a range of smaller projects that aim to produce and transport up to 10 GW of green hydrogen to Europe. The project involves using offshore wind-farms in the North Sea to power electrolysers, which will then produce Hydrogen that can be used for power generation once it is transported through pipelines.[1]
More than 40 partner organizations are involved in the AquaVentus project.[6]
According to ENTSOG's December 2022 TYNDP project list breaks down the project into the following 3 phases:[7]
Phase 1 (Heligoland–Aquaprimus II)
In this phase, a 28 MW electrolyser is expected to be built at the AquaPrimus site, which will then be connected to Heligoland, Germany.
Phase 2 (Extension of Phase 1 to AquaSector production sites)
The AquaSector wind farm is a proposed wind farm 150km north of Heligoland, with a potential maximum capacity of 300 MW. The second phase of the AquaDuctus pipeline will link the first phase to the AquaSector hydrogen production sites.
Phase 3 (Connection to German mainland)
The final phase involves the connection of the AquaDuctus to the German mainland, where the Hydrogen can be transported into Europe.
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Aqua ductus: The European "hydrogen backbone" of the North Sea". AquaVentus. Retrieved 9th Jan, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "AquaDuctus: Pipeline for Green Hydrogen from North Sea | windfair". w3.windfair.net. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ↑ "GASCADE Gastransport: AquaDuctus". www.gascade.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "AquaDuctus Pipeline To Supply Europe With Green Hydrogen | Pipeline Technology Journal". www.pipeline-journal.net. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 GASCADE & Fluxys. "The AquaDuctus project". Gas Infrastructure Europe. Retrieved Jan 9th, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Partner organizations and hydrogen flagship projects". AquaVentus. Retrieved Jan 9th, 2022.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "TYNDP | ENTSOG". www.entsog.eu. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
