Role České republiky v rozvoji vodíkové infrastruktury v rámci evropské energetické transformace

This diploma thesis examines the role of the Czech Republic in the development of hydrogen infrastructure within the European energy transition, through an economic assessment of the competitiveness of the Central European Hydrogen Corridor (CEHC) for the delivery of renewable hydrogen to Germany. The CEHC corridor is compared with two alternative routes: the southern SoutH2 corridor (North Africa – Italy – Austria – Germany) and the northern variant, the Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector (Finland – Sweden – Germany). Methodologically, the thesis is based on the calculation of the Levelised Cost of Hydrogen Production (LCOH) and transport (LCOT) according to the methodologies of the European Hydrogen Observatory and the European Hydrogen Backbone, supplemented by a multi-criteria evaluation incorporating the German demand factor and project maturity. The results show that CEHC exhibits the lowest transport costs among all analysed routes (€0.17/kg), but the highest total delivered price (€5.82/kg) due to the high cost of capital in the Ukrainian source region. The most costcompetitive corridor is SoutH2 (€4.63/kg), while the northern variant occupies an intermediate position (€5.13/kg). In the multicriteria evaluation, the SoutH2 corridor achieves the highest weighted score (3.90), followed by BHC (3.30) and CEHC (3.15). The transit advantage of the Czech Republic is confirmed in terms of transport efficiency; however, its realisation is contingent on the stabilisation of the geopolitical situation, a reduction in the cost of capital in the source region, and the securing of binding offtake agreements.