Hydrogen Gas Market Plan: Report on a commercial framework for Project Union
National Gas Transmission (NGT) collaborated with a working group representing the UK gas industry value chain (Fig.1), to explore how the existing gas sector market design and commercial frameworks may need to evolve to accommodate the development of Project Union and potentially other future 100% Hydrogen Gas Transmission Networks.
Project Union is an NGT flagship project that aims to repurpose a quarter (about 2,000 km) of the existing gas National Transmission System (NTS) network to develop a full (100%) hydrogen ‘backbone network’ by the early 2030’s.
The objectives of Project Union include : • Connecting hydrogen supply and storage to demand, initially linking strategic hydrogen production such as the industrial clusters, and providing the option to expand this initial network to connect additional consumers • Delivering hydrogen system resilience with interconnectivity across the UK and with the European Union (EU), as well as by connecting to storage
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