Nordic - Baltic Hydrogen Corridor

The development and construction of the Nordic- Baltic Hydrogen Corridor will be a key enabler for: 

• Connecting competitive green and low carbon hydrogen supply produced in the Baltic Sea region with supply consumption points and industrial clusters along the Corridor and in Central Europe. 
• Promoting cooperation and integration among EU countries by development of cross-border hydrogen infrastructure and thereby strengthening common energy markets and improving energy supply security across the region. 
• Providing Europe with domestic, competitive green H₂ supply and ensuring build-out of renewables where it is the most economical and thereby contributing to European targets of providing affordable energy to its citizens. 
• Improving energy security and diversification of energy supply instead of importing fossil energy to Europe its replaced by domestically produced green and low-carbon energy what makes the EU less vulnerable to geopolitical tensions and energy price fluctuations. 
• Enhancing market integration and creation of integrated H₂ markets around the Baltic Sea to ensure the development of H₂ value chains. 
• Fostering innovation and business opportunities in hydrogen value chains related technologies, services and solutions and thereby accelerating the European wide sustainable growth and development and improving Europe’s position in the global competition  

An environmental impact assessment procedure has been initiated for the North-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor project in accordance with the Law “On Environmental Impact Assessment”. 

On April 2, 2026, AS "Conexus Baltic Grid" submitted a notice of proposed activity to the State Environmental Service (SES).  On April 17, 2026, the SES adopted Decision No. 11.17/AP/3695/2026 on the application of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure to the proposed activity - the construction of the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor on Latvian territory. 

Since the planned activity may affect cross-border nature, in accordance with the legislation, information about the planned activity was translated into English and sent to the Lithuanian and Estonian competent authority. 

The initial public consultations were organized from July 28 to September 1, 2026. The presentation from the public discussions meetings can be found here. 

In accordance with the national legislation, on August 19, 2026, AS Conexus Baltic Grid submitted the request to the SES to develop the EIA program for the planned activity and provided information regarding the schedule for the intial public consultation process. On the September 21, 2026, materials concerning the conducted initial public consultation were submitted to the SES and all involved municipalities. The EIA Program for the construction of the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor within the territory of Latvia was issued on the 9th October 2026.