Connection to warm water, electricity and natural gas distribution pipelines - 2009-2010

The terminal must obviously also be connected to local services. To supply warm water (a residual product from a nearby power station), a hot water pumping station will be built on E.ON’s site. It will pump 30,000-60,000 m³ of water per hour through two pipes with a diameter of nearly 2 metres each through the port area to the terminal. The connection will include a 1,000 metre micro-tunnel with a diameter of just over 2 metres 30 metres below sea level under the new Yangtze harbour. Water from the E.ON power station will be cooled during vaporizing to the original temperature of the surface water. This will avoid the use of natural gas to warm up the LNG, which is of obvious benefit to the environment.

Between 15 and 30 MW of electricity will be needed for the operations at the terminal. It will be supplied through two main feeder cables in the port area. The terminal must also be connected to the nearby Maasmond station just west of the Maasvlakte Oil Terminal (MOT), part of the national gas transmission network operated by Gasunie.