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The project aims to ensure a future supply of green hydrogen produced in Finland to the countries involved. A hydrogen pipeline approximately 2,500 kilometers long is to be built from Finland via the Baltic states and Poland to Germany.  

Comprehensive analysis and determination of requirements

Building on the results of the pre-feasibility study from 2024, the aim of the feasibility study is to carry out a detailed technical and economic analysis of the hydrogen pipeline at a national and corridor-wide level. This includes:

• Investigations of possible routes for the hydrogen pipeline
• Evaluation of possible locations and technologies for hydrogen compressors
• Estimated investment and operating costs
• Investigations into a viable business model
• Tariff models to determine the economic viability of the overall project.

Furthermore, as part of the feasibility study, potential customers should be given the opportunity to specify their future requirements so that these can then be incorporated into the design of the corridor in the best possible way.  

Application for funding by the European Union

The findings from the investigations should subsequently enable the project partners to make well-founded decisions on further project phases. The investigations relating to ONTRAS as part of the feasibility study will begin in the middle of the year and run until the first quarter of 2027.  

Following a successful application, the project partners have the opportunity to receive EU funding to carry out the feasibility study. Up to 50 % of the costs of the feasibility study can be funded by the EU.