Hydrogen for Saarland: The mosaHYc project starts early – Creos and GRTgaz want to build a 100-kilometer hydrogen pipeline.
The grid operators Creos and GRTgaz want to build an approximately 100-kilometer-long hydrogen pipeline with the Luxembourg energy group Encevo.
Creos Deutschland Wasserstoff GmbH has received permission from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) for the pipeline project mosaHYc (Moselle-Saar-Hydrogen-Conversion) for the so-called “early start of measures” within the framework of the IPCEI on Hydrogen (“Important Project of Common European Interest”) program.
This enables Creos to start the project now before the final funding decision has been received.
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In particular, Creos will now press ahead with the route planning for the construction of a new hydrogen pipeline between Dillingen and the village of Ihn on the german-French border, as the company announces. The first route inspections will take place as early as mid-October.
Norman BlaĂź, Managing Director of Creos Deutschland Wasserstoff.
We have set ourselves the goal of defining the concrete route by the beginning of next year in order to quickly open the approval procedures for the construction of the new pipeline in 2023.
Also in the coming year, Creos wants to carry out technical feasibility studies to advance the conversion of existing lines between Völklingen-Carling and Perl.
Connection to the European hydrogen network
Jens Apelt, Managing Director of Creos Deutschland GmbH, said:
MosaHYc has the potential to really advance the energy transformation.
“Not only for the Creos themselves, but for Saarland and beyond in the entire Greater Region. It is the opportunity for the use of hydrogen in production processes, for climate-neutral, green steel in Saarland, for hydrogen producers in the Greater Region and for the future connection to the large European hydrogen transport system.”
Together with the partners of the Grande Region Hydrogen EEIG (GRH), mosaHYc has succeeded in creating a functioning hydrogen economy across borders with the participation of the various market players. Network operators, hydrogen producers and hydrogen consumers would work together in the GRH at the right time and in the right place.
Cross-border project
MosaHYc aims to help hydrogen producers and consumers in the “Greater Region” of Saarland, Luxembourg and Moselle to develop new, climate-neutral business models in industry, the heating market and the transport sector.
With mosaHYc, the grid operators Creos and GRTgaz, in cooperation with the Luxembourg energy group Encevo, want to establish an approximately 100-kilometer hydrogen pipeline in the Greater Region.
For this purpose, around 70 kilometers of existing and partly out of operation gas pipelines are to be converted into hydrogen pipelines. The additional construction of around 30 kilometers of hydrogen pipelines will then create a first hydrogen island network. (amo)
Hydrogen for Saarland: mosaHYc project starts ahead of schedule, October 17, 2022
