- Germany’s development ministry said that it has agreed to form a climate and energy collaboration with Morocco.
- Unlike the fossil-based economy, Schulz said the new green hydrogen economy must be fair.
Germany’s development ministry said that it has agreed to form a climate and energy collaboration with Morocco to support renewable energy expansion and hydrogen production in the North African country.
Germany seeks to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting industrial sectors, such as steel and chemicals, that cannot be electrified.
Also, Berlin will have to import up to 70 per cent of its hydrogen demand in the future as Europe’s largest economy aims to become climate-neutral by 2045, but it lacks the space and conditions for large wind and solar power production.
“Morocco has the best conditions for the energy transition and the production of green hydrogen. Germany wants to import hydrogen,” Development Minister Svenja Schulze, who signed the alliance declaration with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Berlin, said in a statement.
Unlike the fossil-based economy, Schulze said the new green hydrogen economy must be fair.
“We want to do this fairly and in partnership so that Morocco can also drive forward its energy transition and get its fair share of the value chains of the future,” she added.
Moreover, given the geographical proximity, Germany supports electricity trading cooperation between Morocco and the European Union and German technology companies and suppliers’ participation in advancing the H2 economy there, Economy Ministry State Secretary Stefan Wenzel said. from old
The development ministry said Germany supported the construction of the world’s largest solar thermal power plant in the southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate. Germany is also building Morocco‘s first green hydrogen pilot plant.
The ministry added that the plant is expected to produce around 10,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually, enough to produce 50,000 tonnes of green steel.