Hydrogen Infrastructure Gaps Identification Report

TYNDP 2024

1 Introduction

The TYNDP 2024 Hydrogen Infrastructure Gaps Identification report (IGI report) aims at identifying regional infrastructure gaps within the assessed sets of hydrogen infrastructure assumed to be in place in a given year (i. e., hydrogen infrastructure level). IGI indicators are used for this identification.

This document is established in line with Article 13 of the TEN-E Regulation. Further details about its legal background, assumptions, modelling tools, and methodologies are provided in the TYNDP 2024 IGI methodology (Annex D2) that is cross-referencing to the TYNDP 2024 Implementation Guidelines (Annex D1) as well as to the TYNDP 2024 scenarios.

Infrastructure gaps identified in ENTSOG’s hydrogen-related TYNDP 2024 IGI report may in some cases also be addressable by energy infrastructure solutions in other sectors like the electricity sector or the natural gas sector. This is the case for any infrastructure gaps identification that is focused on a specific energy vector. For electricity, ENTSO-E prepares the Identification of System Needs (IoSN) report, which is the equivalent to ENTSOG’s IGI report.

There are two hydrogen infrastructure levels analysed as part of the IGI report (see section 3):

A PCI/PMI hydrogen infrastructure level containing existing hydrogen infrastructure, FID hydrogen projects, and hydrogen projects on the Union list¹, modified by requests of the European Commission concerning import corridors.
An Advanced hydrogen infrastructure level containing the PCI/PMI hydrogen infrastructure level as well as advanced hydrogen projects, modified by requests of the European Commission concerning import corridors.

The electricity infrastructure level considered in the IGI reflects the reference grid including generation and storage assets used in the NT+ scenario. Depending on time horizon (i. e., 2030 or 2040) different electricity projects will be considered to be part of the reference grid (as described in the Annex D1 section 2.3.2).

The analysis is performed for 2030 and 2040 for the TYNDP 2024 National Trends+ (NT+) scenario. Thereby, three indicators are used to identify regional hydrogen infrastructure gaps (see section 4).

¹ 6th Union list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI) and Projects of Mutual Interest (PMI) (i. e., 1st Union list under the revised TEN-E Regulation) as detailed in section B of Annex VII to the TEN-E Regulation.

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