Enagas announces call for interest for future hydrogen backbone in Spain

LONDON–(ICIS)  Spanish TSO Enagas announced it will launch a call for interest on 14 September to gather demand related to the Spanish Hydrogen Backbone system.

The backbone system, part of the H2Med, aims to harness the potential of solar production in the Iberian Peninsula to produce green hydrogen, which would then be transported to France via the BarMar underwater pipeline and eventually in central Europe.

The H2Med entails of mainly three axes, two moving south-north and an additional one moving west to east in the north of the country. The network includes two international interconnections with Portugal and France.

The Spanish TSO Enagas, Portuguese TSO REN, and French TSO GRTgaz are all involved in the development of this project.

Enagas has also proposed to analyse the feasibility of using two salt caverns located north along the route of one of the axes as storage facilities for hydrogen.

CONNECTING THE DOTS

Other announced projects will bring out synergy between the countries.

France is planning a network departing from Marseille, where the Bar-Mar is connected, to transport hydrogen both north and west of the country.

On the west, second French TSO Terega, had proposed the HySoW network, which also includes salt caverns repurposed for hydrogen. TSO GRTGaz had announced the Hy-fen network as an extension to the BarMar, to bring green hydrogen produced in Spain to Germany.

In Germany, TSO OGE had proposed a complex network developed in several stages. The final picture entails in a hydrogen network supplying important centres of consumption in Germany with imports coming from both north (Belgium, Netherlands, Norway) and south (France, Czech Republic).