ONTRAS commissions gas pipeline from Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park – first section of the hydrogen core network in Eastern Germany
Gunar Schmidt, ONTRAS Managing Director for Operations and Safety: “This gas pipeline is a central component of the Energy Park and the first dedicated H2 pipeline in the core network in Eastern Germany. This enables us to transport approximately 2,700 tonnes of green hydrogen annually to our customers in Leuna. We are demonstrating that a gas transmission pipeline built in the 1980s can indeed play an important role in the energy system of the future.”
With the initial charging of the pipeline with gas, several milestones have been passed: On the one hand, work on a further value-added stage of the Energy Park has been concluded and the pipeline is now ready to transport hydrogen. On the other, with this pipeline section, ONTRAS has completed the first section of the hydrogen core network in Eastern Germany and hence also the initial section of the ONTRAS H2 start-up network.
• Conversion of 25 kilometres of existing pipeline from natural gas to hydrogen completed
• Next level of value creation at the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park comes on stream
• It also creates the entry point for the ONTRAS H2 start-up network, establishing connections from the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park to the West and East
