Vienna, October 23, 2025 – The 6th Working Group Meeting of the SoutH2 Corridor project convened stakeholders from across Europe in Vienna to advance the development of a dedicated hydrogen corridor linking North Africa, Italy, Austria, and Germany.
The group exchanged on the latest achievements in the corridor developments in areas such as policy alignment, technical planning, and financing options and reinforced the joint commitment to the 3,300 km pipeline that is the enabler to deliver renewable hydrogen at competitive prices to European industry clusters. The exchange focused on improving the framework conditions further to facilitate infrastructure development and on setting the ground for the next steps regarding cross-border cooperation and the coordinated national transposition of EU regulatory requirements and their updates.
With more than 40% of the REPowerEU hydrogen import target potentially routed through the SoutH2 Corridor, the initiative strengthens Europe’s energy security and decarbonization ambitions, leveraging mostly existing natural gas infrastructure for a sustainable energy future.
The project partners—Snam, TAG, Gas Connect Austria, and bayernets—thank all attending ministries, network operators, regulators, and financial stakeholders for their valuable input. The dialogue will continue as the SoutH2 Corridor moves toward realization.
