Energy Transition
ENTSOG work is continuing to evolve: from fulfilment of its regulatory tasks assigned by the Third Energy Package, through to responding to future challenges and supporting Europe's energy transition, market competitiveness and security of energy supply. ENTSOG aims to contribute to the realisation of European Green Deal, including legislative initiatives within the 'Fit for 55' package, Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Market package and the REPowerEU action plan. ENTSOG will also continue its work on Energy System Integration, specifically the development and planning of the EU hydrogen backbone via repurposing and retrofitting of existing pipelines, based on the revised TEN-E Regulation.
Challenges include addressing fluctuating gas qualities, framing the proper conditions for connecting decarbonised and renewable gases production, planning usage of gas grids from hydrogen and biogas friendly perspective or designing new data flows between TSOs and DSOs. Nevertheless, gas systems offer a long-distance transportation, a long-term energy storage, decarbonisation of heating and short-term demand management support tools.
ENTSOG will continue to engage with stakeholders along the whole value-chain via:
- Advisory Panel for Future Gas Grids
- Prime Mover Group on Gas Quality and Hydrogen Handling
- Prime Mover Group on Guarantees of Origin
- European Clean Hydrogen Alliance Roundtable on Clean Hydrogen Transmission and Distribution
- European Clean Hydrogen Partnership
- Energy Investor's Dialogue
- Industry Advisory Group
For further information please contact:
Sara Piskor - Director, Strategy, Policy and Communication
ENTSOG's Regulatory Affairs Manager Patricia Orglerova speaks to FSR about the H2 Infrastructure Map
In December 2022, ENTSOG along with GIE, Eurogas, CEDEC, GD4S, and GEODE, and in cooperation with European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB), launched the first edition of the 'Hydrogen Infrastructure Map'. Hear more about the objectives and benefits of this map from Patricia Orglerova, as she speaks with James Kneebone of the Florence School of Regulation.
New Hydrogen Infrastructure Map shows how infrastructure can enable the upscaling of hydrogen economy
Six industry associations for gas distribution, transmission, import and storage, in cooperation with European Hydrogen Backbone Initiative, have launched a website visualising hydrogen projects in an interactive map. This map was developed using bottom-up collection of data for relevant infrastructure projects, including those for demand and production, and presents the projects in 2030, 2040 and 2050.
Presentation of map at ENTSOG conference 2022
"Vision of the future: European hydrogen infrastructure map" - Politico article
ENTSOG Talks! Watch the post conference discussions on the gas infrastructure topics that matter now
After ENTSOG's Annual Conference 2022, Director for Strategy, Policy and Communication - Sara Piskor - had the opportunity to sit and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for the gas infrastructure with key stakeholders. Links for each of the five recordings are below.
'ENTSOG Talks' with Klaus-Dieter Borchardt (Baker McKenzie) and Bart Jan Hoevers (ENTSOG).
'ENTSOG Talks' with Wayne-Daniel Kern, Bosch.
'ENTSOG Talks' with Federica Sabbati, EHI.
'ENTSOG Talks' with Dennis Hesseling (ACER), Ivan Pineda (WindEurope) and Hendrik Pollex (ENTSOG).
'ENTSOG Talks' with Jacques Vandermeiren (Port of Antwerp Bruges).
ENTSOG Annual Conference 2022: ‘In The Pipeline: Secure Winter, Sustainable Future’
On16 December 2022, ENTSOG hosted their annual conference ‘In The Pipeline: Secure Winter, Sustainable Future’ in hybrid format, with online participants and attendees at the ENTSOG office joining the discussions. Security of supply and the gas grids’ readiness for hydrogen were discussed by participants.
Hydrogen Project Visualisation Platform
ENTSOG, together with its Members, have developed a Hydrogen Project Visualisation Platform to map the numerous hydrogen projects to identify supply and demand centres, to develop an EU-wide Hydrogen Backbone. This is comprehensive, interactive map for hydrogen projects along the whole value chain based on open source data.
ECH2A
ENTSOG facilitates the Roundtable on Clean Hydrogen Transmission and Distribution under the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, which contributed to two main ECH2A deliverables: Project Investment pipeline and Report on Barriers and Mitigation measures.
Advisory Panel for Future Gas Grids
ENTSOG launched in January 2021 an Advisory Panel for Future Gas Grids with the purpose to discuss openly among stakeholders along the entire value chain on how to transition the gas grids to net-zero by 2050. The video summarises the work done in 2021 and future steps and deliverables for 2022.
ENTSOG Annual Conference 2021: ‘Infrastructure for a Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Market’
EC Head of Cabinets – Stefano Grassi and Diederik Samsom discussed the regulatory framework the newly published Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Markets in detail with participants, with a transition phase by 2030, towards a hydrogen market in 2050. Watch the recording here:
ENTSOG, GIE and Hydrogen Europe publish “How to transport and store hydrogen? Facts and figures”
ENTSOG, GIE and Hydrogen Europe have joined forces on a factsheet that answers a number of fundamental questions about gaseous and liquid hydrogen transport and storage. This factsheet provides an objective and informative analysis on key concepts, terminology and facts and figures from different public sources.
Video recording of ENTSOG Online Conference ‘Future of Gas Grids: Decarbonisation and Energy System Integration’
On 8 December 2020, ENTSOG hosted its fourth annual conference online - ‘Future of Gas Grids: Decarbonisation and Energy System Integration’.
Please click the adjacent image to watch the full recording of the conference
