Swedish prestudy on Swedish-Finnish hydrogen pipelines completed
The prestudy on hydrogen pipelines for transporting hydrogen across the border from Finland and for long distances in northern Sweden is completed. The result shows that hydrogen pipelines may be needed as a complement to power lines for industry's large hydrogen and energy needs in northern Sweden. A new type of infrastructure is then emerging that needs more appropriate regulations for ownership and governance.
"Our prestudy assumes that there are great advantages to hydrogen pipelines when transporting large amounts of energy. Regardless of whether hydrogen will be produced very close to an industry, or close to the electricity production, hydrogen pipelines will be needed. The hydrogen pipelines that are placed below the ground surface can be built by individual actors and the hydrogen is sold bilaterally. Or larger infrastructure can be built for the transport and storage of hydrogen that is used jointly, something that opens up a new hydrogen market", Cecilia Wallmark says, Director of Centre for Hydrogen Energy Systems Sweden, at Luleå University of Technology.
The prestudy has been carried out by Luleå University of Technology and RISE in 2022 in collaboration with 24 actors with interests in hydrogen in northern Sweden, and has been partially financed by Vinnova.
Read more at https://www.ltu.se/centres/CH2ESS/Nyheter/Vatgasledningar-en-ny-infrastruktur-pa-framvaxt-1.223448?l=en