Six сountries sign agreement to develop Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor

Six partners have signed a cooperation agreement to develop the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor.

The European TSOs Gasgrid Finland (Finland), Elering (Estonia), Conexus Baltic Grid (Latvia), Amber Grid (Lithuania), GAZ-SYSTEM (Poland) and ONTRAS (Germany) have signed a cooperation agreement to develop hydrogen infrastructure from Finland through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to Germany to meet the REPowerEU 2030 targets, press service of the Lithuanian company Amber Grid, one of the project participants reported.

The TSOs have initiated a project called the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor that will strengthen the region’s energy security, reduce the dependency on imported fossil energy and play a prominent role in decarbonising societies and energy-intensive industries along the corridor. It also has significant potential to contribute to the EU’s greenhouse gas emission reduction target by replacing today’s fossil-based production and fossil fuel consumption in industry, transport sector, electricity, and heating, with these based on new renewable fuel, i.e., green hydrogen. 

"Participation in the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Infrastructure Corridor is an important commitment to local and international partners to create pathways for this new environmentally friendly form of energy. For several years, we have been working on analyzing the possibilities of hydrogen as a substitute for natural gas, energy transportation, mixing, safe transmission, and the market demand for producing, consuming, importing, or exporting hydrogen. The joint focus of the operators of the six countries in the implementation of the hydrogen corridor of the North-Baltic countries and the planning of further work, shows a unified approach to the importance of energy transformation and the need to carry it out as quickly as possible", says Nemunas Biknius, CEO of Amber Grid.