Financial support was applied for three projects: Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor (NBHC), Nordic Hydrogen Route (NHR) and Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector (BHC), all of which were granted financial support.

Gasgrid applied for support with its partners in autumn 2024. On 29 January 2025, the Committee on the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) decided on a proposal from the European Commission.

The Corridor project of Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen develops hydrogen infrastructure combining the markets of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany. Nordic Hydrogen’s Route project develops hydrogen infrastructure between Finland and Sweden on the Bothnian Bay coast. The Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector project develops undersea hydrogen infrastructure to connect the markets in Finland and Sweden and central Europe.

These three projects aim to create excellent investment conditions for further processing plants for clean electricity, hydrogen and hydrogen nationally and wider Baltic Sea regions.

“The news is very positive from the perspective of Finland and the entire European hydrogen economy. The decision shows that Finland and the Baltic Sea region are a strategically significant and highly competitive region to develop a hydrogen economy. This decision will help develop the hydrogen market and create preconditions for Gasgrid’s long-term work to promote the Finnish hydrogen economy. We see strong signals of hydrogen projects coming to the provinces. In line with our strategy, we will continue to develop a national hydrogen network and at the same time to build international infrastructure projects and an international market to enable investments in the hydrogen economy in Finland," says Sara Kärki, Director of Hydronization Development at Gasgrid.

EUR 51.4 million for further research into projects

The European Commission allocated a joint venture of project (PCI) status to projects in April 2024 and now totalling €51.4 million.

The Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor project (NBHC) received a total of EUR 6.8 million in support.

The Nordic Hydrogen Route project (NHR) received EUR 29.4 million.
The Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector project (BHC) received EUR 15.3 million.

The projects were assessed using criteria that highlighted priority and urgency, maturity, quality, impact and industry acceleration. The European Commission considered that all three projects contribute to reducing CO2 emissions and achieving EU climate and energy targets and facilitating the creation of an integrated, competitive and transparent cross-border hydrogen market.

“A decision is a great thing for Finland. Competition for infrastructure funding is fierce in the EU and therefore this decision is a great demonstration of the quality of our project work and its potential to promote the EU’s energy self-sufficiency, energy security and opportunities to support a clean transition,” Kärki continues.

CEF: Connecting Europe Facility, i.e. Connecting Europe, provides financial support for energy grid development, among other things. In this application round, a total of EUR 1.2 billion of EU funding was allocated to various energy infrastructure projects.

Gasgrid is a gas transmission system operator in Finland and a builder of a national hydrogen network. We provide our customers with safe, reliable and cost-effective gas transfer. We are actively and customer-oriented developing our transmission platform, services and gas markets to promote the carbon-neutral energy and raw materials system of the future. Gasgrid Group consists of the central government-owned parent company Gasgrid Finland Oy and subsidiaries Gasgrid vetyverkot Oy and Floating LNG Terminal Finland Oy. Read more: gasgrid.fi

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