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OGE – GET H2 IPCEI (DE49)
GET H2 IPCEI (DE49)
GET H2 IPCEI as a project is executed by OGE in partnership with RWE Generation, RWE Gas Storage West, Nowega and Thyssengas. RWE Generation is installing and operating electrolysers at its power plant site in Lingen producing renewable hydrogen. RWE Gas Storage West as a natural gas storage operator is developing a salt cavern for the storage of hydrogen at its site in Gronau-Epe. Nowega, Thyssengas and OGE as operators of natural gas pipeline systems providing large scale transport of gas are converting and building new pipelines to connect production, import, storage, and consumption sites of hydrogen.
At the end of 2025, the GET H2 IPCEI partners Nowega and OGE will jointly establish the first publicly accessible hydrogen infrastructure. The GET H2 IPCEI project connects production sites for renewable hydrogen with industrial consumers in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, integrating a salt cavern storage. The network from Lingen to Gelsenkirchen and Gronau-Epe is set to become the first hydrogen network in the regulated sector with non-discriminatory access and transparent prices. By 2028, the pipeline infrastructure will be extended, together with Thyssengas, to connect an import point from the Netherlands and the Thyssenkrupp Steel Mill in Duisburg, as well as the chemical park in Marl, and additional potential production and consumption sites, with OGE building or converting 139 km of hydrogen pipelines.
In a first step, OGE is converting pipeline sections partly under joint ownership with Nowega from Emsbüren in Lower Saxony to Legden in North Rhine-Westphalia. Furthermore, Nowega and OGE have been granted public permits for a new pipeline connecting the converted pipeline to the planned salt cavern storage in Gronau-Epe. Construction of this pipeline has begun in 2025 with the commissioning planned for the end of the year. The permit applications for the new pipelines to be established from Dorsten to Marl and Duisburg-Hamborn respectively, have been submitted in 2024 with construction starting in 2026. The conversion of the pipeline Legden to Dorsten will be performed in 2027.
https://oge.net/en/hydrogen/our-hydrogen-projects/get-h2-nukleus
https://www.get-h2.de/en/get-h2-nukleus/
Alexander Behnke, Christoph Burkhart: get-h2-ipcei@oge.net
