HyPipe Bavaria – The Hydrogen Hub is a Project of Common Interest (PCI). With this project, we are creating the conditions required to import hydrogen through our interconnection point Überackern. With this connection to the Austrian network system, we are opening the gateway to future hydrogen sources from the south and southeast. Hydrogen can then be transported through Bavaria into the national hydrogen core network and further to other European countries. The first pipeline section, HyPipe one, is currently being constructed in the Bavarian Chemical Triangle and will be hydrogen-ready in 2027. HyPipe one forms part of our contribution to the national hydrogen core network. The PCI project also supports our common SoutH2 Corridor initiative, the aim being to transport green hydrogen from North Africa through a southern corridor to industrial clusters in Bavaria and onward into the German core network.

Companies in Bavaria are pressing ahead with the decarbonisation or defossilisation of their production methods and processes. Some industries, however, continue to generate process-related emissions that are difficult or impossible to avoid. Parallel to this, CO₂ is needed as a raw material in certain specialised sectors. bayernets is an energy infrastructure provider for the pipeline-based transport of natural gas, biomethane and hydrogen. As an infrastructure specialist, we are also developing transport solutions for unavoidable CO₂ emissions with the co₂peline project and are thus contributing part of the answer to this challenge facing society and those developing industrial policy.