Enagás launches the Public Participation Plan of the Spanish Hydrogen Backbone, the largest of its kind to date in Spain.
Enagás today launched the Conceptual Public Participation Concept Plan (CPPP) for the Spanish hydrogen backbone at the headquarters of the Spanish National Hydrogen Centre (CNH2) in Puertollano. The objective of the plan is to consult and share information on the future hydrogen network with all stakeholders, to answer queries, to explain the need for the project, to encourage the active participation of communities in the process, to mitigate impacts on the local area and to ensure the most appropriate actions are taken from a social and environmental perspective from an early stage.
The CPPP is designed to engage with autonomous regions, local councils, more than 50 public authorities and 380 organisations and associations, as well as all members of the general public interested in participating. The Plan is scheduled to be rolled out over 18 months across the 13 autonomous regions and 550 municipalities through which the corresponding sections of the network will pass, after which a final report on the results of the process will be drawn up.
The project for the first axes of Spain's inland hydrogen network consists of laying around 2,600 kilometres of new or reconverted underground pipelines, grouped into 15 sections and 5 axes: the Vía de la Plata axis (around 875 kilometres and four sections), the Cantabrian Coast Axis (around 440 kilometres and three sections), the Levante Axis (around 505 kilometres and four sections), the Transversal Castilla-La Mancha Axis (around 235 kilometres and one section) and the Ebro Valley Axis (around 535 kilometres and three sections). More than 80% of the new network will run along the route of existing gas infrastructure, and 21% of the network will involve the reuse of existing gas pipelines.
The report “Internal hydrogen infrastructure in Spain. Non-technical summary”, published by Enagás, provides a detailed breakdown of project execution by autonomous region and proposes a project schedule beginning in 2025 and running through to 2030.
