24 July 2024
Italian Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin announced that Italy will host an event in autumn to present a hydrogen transport network that should connect the southern Mediterranean to northern Europe.
The SoutH2 Corridor project will connect North Africa, Italy, Austria and Germany and is led by a number of gas grid operators (TSOs) -Snam (Italy), TAG (Austria), CGA (Austria) and bayernets (Germany) – which in December 2022 each submitted on an individual basis Project of Common Interest (PCI) applications under the TEN-E regulation. The corridor, which could be operational in 2030, will have a hydrogen import capacity from North Africa of 4 million tonnes per annum, meaning it could deliver on 40% of the EU’s hydrogen import target which is set at 10 million tonnes per annum by 2030.
According to the Italian minister of the Environment and Energy Security, several options exist as to how to achieve this, explaining that one option is to use pipeline connections already in place with Libya and Tunisa while another option would be to convert green fuel into ammonia and transport it to Europe by ship.
Source: Euractiv, South2corridor.net