Green hydrogen for Europe – energy without borders
"H2EU+Store" is an international industry partnership founded by RAG Austria AG and Eco-Optima to accelerate the market ramp-up of green hydrogen in Central Europe.
The initiative is structured as an integrated project by looking at the entire value chain (production, transport and storage and also including the consumer market) of the future hydrogen market.
Since renewable energy sources in the European Union are far from sufficient to transform the existing energy systems into the direction of climate neutrality, member states of the European Union will have to import large quantities of hydrogen.
In onshore Europe, Ukraine offers the best conditions for large-scale green hydrogen production. Ukraine combines enormous potential for electricity production from wind and sun and sufficient water resources with access to the existing transnational gas infrastructure for transporting hydrogen to Central Europe. This also is in line with the European Union's hydrogen strategy, in which Ukraine is seen as one of the primary partners for the hydrogen rollout. Germany shares this vision and has already established an energy partnership for the production of green hydrogen with Ukraine.
The focus of "H2EU+Store" is on the one hand to ramp up and accelerate the production of green hydrogen in Western Ukraine to be prepared for a climate-neutral hydrogen supply to Central Europe. Therefore, the first step is to create the necessary foundation for renewable energy and hydrogen production in Ukraine.
In addition, the industry partnership "H2EU+Store" is pursuing the inevitable expansion of hydrogen storage volumes (both for production balancing and to balance the seasonal demand) as well as adaptations in the area of gas transport from Western Ukraine to Central Europe.
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