THE Scottish Government is accelerating plans for a hydrogen pipeline connecting Scotland to Germany.
Energy Minister Gillian Martin announced on Thursday that The Net Zero Technology Centre has been awarded £200,000 to look into the feasibility and economic opportunity of exporting green hydrogen from Scotland to Germany and solidify the case for infrastructure investment.
She added: “It's not just Germany, who are obviously moving very fast. We've got interest in Scottish hydrogen from Belgium, from the Netherlands, from Spain – which isn’t an energy producing nation.”made by using electricity generated from renewable sources to split water into its two constituent elements . When burned, hydrogen does not give off carbon dioxide, and the oxygen by-product has no negative impacts on the atmosphere.
An example of this includes NZTC's Hydrogen Backbone Link, which in a report in August, proposed an undersea network of pipelines that would connect Scotland with Ireland and either the Netherlands and/or Germany, making use of existing North Sea infrastructure for natural gas. in Scotland could create between 70,000 to over 300,000 jobs, with potential Gross Value Added impacts of between £5 billion and £25 billion a year by 2045 depending on the scale of production and the extent of exports.She said: “We need to balance that export potential with what we can actually be doing domestically because we could be decarbonizing quite a lot of our industrial processes with our own domestic hydrogen.
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