On 29 June 2022, former Dutch Minister for Climate and Energy Policy Rob Jetten announced the plans for the construction of a national hydrogen transmission network. Hynetwork, as a subsidiary of Gasunie, has been commissioned to construct and operate the hydrogen network in the Netherlands.
The hydrogen network will link the major industrial clusters in the Netherlands and connect them to hydrogen storage facilities, import locations, and other countries. We will start by constructing the network in the major industrial regions, such as in the North Sea Canal area and in the northern and the south-western regions of the Netherlands. We started on the hydrogen pipelines in Rotterdam in 2023.
In the development of the hydrogen transmission network we are mainly using existing pipelines, more and more of which will become available over the coming years as the transmission of natural gas continues to decline. Where this is not possible we will install new pipelines.