Construction on Gasunie’s national hydrogen network has begun after the King of the Netherlands performed an official opening ceremony.
King Willem-Alexander was invited on a tour of Gasunie’s building site before performing the ceremony at the building site of subsidiary Hynetwork Services at the Port of Rotterdam, where contractor Visser & Smit Hanab will build the first section of the network.
Costing around €1.5bn ($1.58bn) to build, the hydrogen network will connect the Netherlands’ major industrial areas to each other and to Germany and Belgium, which aims to repurpose existing natural gas pipelines.
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