Corridor B: Southwest Europe & North Africa. Corridor A: North Africa & Southern Europe.Both hydrogen supply and demand will substantially increase towards 2040. EHB also identified a large share of EU hydrogen demand to meet the 2030 target, with an expectation for 2030 demand to accelerate further following the REPowerEU publication. In addition, hydrogen import potentials have been identified. EHB has identified 12 Mt (~400 TWh) of potential EU hydrogen supply, exceeding the domestic, REPowerEU target of 10 Mt of green hydrogen by 2030. The corridor analysis has identified sufficient hydrogen supply to exceed the European 2030 domestic supply targets, contributing to European energy independence and security of supply. The five corridors span across both domestic and import supply markets, consistent with the three import corridors identified by the REPowerEU plan. The deployment of such a European Hydrogen Backbone infrastructure by 2030 will enable market actors to develop supply and demand more rapidly in a cost-efficient manner Pipeline transport offers a cost-efficient solution to connect areas of large amounts of hydrogen excess supply with regions with hydrogen demand, especially when including repurposing of existing gas infrastructure. These corridors will play a key role as cost-efficient solution to transport large volumes of low-cost hydrogen supply to demand centers. The corridors will initially connect domestic local supply and demand in Europe, before expanding & connecting European regions and neighbouring countries with low-cost hydrogen export potential. To deliver the accelerated 2030 hydrogen demand & supply targets set by the REPowerEU plan, five large-scale pipeline corridors are envisaged. The members of the EHB initiative recommend to the EC to consider the establishment of hydrogen supply corridors by 2030 as front-running infrastructure as a political objective, in order to ensure the fulfilment of REPowerEU targets.To ensure the development of these supply corridors by 2030, speed is of essence and EHB identified 5 key actions needed now.The five corridors span across both domestic and import supply markets, consistent with the three import corridors identified by the recent REPowerEU plan.These corridors will play a key role as cost-efficient solution to transport large volumes of low-cost hydrogen supply to demand centres.
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