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Hydrogen storages in Germany:

ProjectCluster · DE

Designation: PCI Assessment: Partially assessed Location: not established

Strategic assessment

On the EU list of projects of common interest. Operational facts, dependencies and consequences are not yet assessed.

Official designation is a legal status. It is shown separately from the analytical assessment above and is never treated as demonstrated strategic importance.

Assessment by dimension

Why it matters

Essential-function significance Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: significance level for the supported functions

Published-network connections Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: physical connectivity beyond the published network

Cross-border relevance Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Concentration of designations Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: undesignated national capability of the same type

Civil and dual-use relevance Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: official dual-use or military-mobility documentation

Exposure and resilience

Cross-domain dependencies Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: power, data and fuel dependencies

Redundancy and substitutability Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: evidenced substitute capacity

Capacity and throughput Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: official capacity or throughput statistics

Disruption consequences Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: evidence linking disruption to service outcomes

Recovery and replacement constraints Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: restoration or replacement time evidence

Control and status

Ownership and operational control Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Unresolved: official ownership and operator records

Regulatory and programme status Not applicable

This dimension does not apply to this class of record.

Evidence

Evidence quality single source identity

1 cited source(s), 1 supporting assertion(s).

Band meaning: Identity rests on a single cited primary source.

Method (M-EVIDENCE-QUALITY-COUNT v1, confidence high): Counts distinct cited primary sources and supporting assertions from the published evidence profile. ≥3 sources → multi-source; 2 → two-source; 1 source with >1 assertion → single-source-corroborated; 1 source, 1 assertion → single-source-identity.

Evidence freshness current

Most recent cited evidence: 2025-12-01.

Band meaning: Most recent cited evidence is at most 18 months old.

Method (M-EVIDENCE-FRESHNESS-DATE v1, confidence high): Takes the most recent cited source date from the published evidence profile. ≤18 months → current; ≤36 months → recent; older → dated. Undated evidence yields insufficient-evidence.

Location

No verified or documented geographic reference is published for this object. The map does not display a substitute location for it.

Ownership and operation

Not publicly established in this corpus. Ownership and operation are never inferred.

Capacity and operational facts

No capacity or throughput fact is evidenced in the public corpus for this object.

Dependencies and connected systems

No operational dependency is evidenced yet.

Published designation and network context

These relations describe legal designation and published network membership. They are context, not dependency claims.

Designated under: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/764
Implements: Hydrogen interconnections in Western Europe
Part of: EWE Hydrogen Storage Huntorf
Part of: EWE Hydrogen Storage Jemgum
Part of: Gasunie SpHyGER Etzel
Part of: NWKG H2 Storage
Part of: RWE H2 Storage Gronau-Epe – 2nd expansion
Part of: RWE H2 Storage expansion Gronau-Epe (No 9.22.2 on the 1st Union list)
Part of: Salthy hydrogen storage Harsefeld
Part of: Salthy hydrogen storage Harsefeld II A+B
Part of: UST Hydrogen Storage Epe
Part of: UST Hydrogen Storage Krummhörn

Evidence

Annex VII lists numbered grouping 9.22 with 10 member projects.

undated · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/764 — second Union PCI/PMI list · Annex VII, Part B, point (9), group 9.22, PDF p. 11/17 · status ES-PRIMARY-CONFIRMED · confidence 1.000

Not established

Currently unresolved: verified geographic location.

Technical record (identifiers and codes)

Object identifier: PCI-PMI-2026-GROUP-9-22
Node type: ProjectCluster
Object class: context-object
Identity scope: published-context-object
Evidence status: ES-PRIMARY-CONFIRMED
Confidence: 1.000
Scenario eligible: False
API: /api/v1/dossiers/PCI-PMI-2026-GROUP-9-22