Morocco is attempting to establish itself as a leader in the green hydrogen industry, despite a wide global movement toward clean energy to combat climate change.
This desire is bolstered by the Kingdom’s great potential in the field of renewable energy, with predictions that it will go beyond self-sufficiency and open the door to energy export to European markets.
Odile Renaud Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, affirmed that the Kingdom can create green hydrogen at the world’s lowest cost.
During a conference in Marrakesh last week, a European official stated that the Kingdom is now among the countries best positioned in the green hydrogen revolution because of its enormous solar and wind resources.
Morocco is one of the countries working hard to phase out fossil fuels and transition to clean energy, with a goal of increasing renewable energy use to 52 percent by 2030.
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency’s categorization, Morocco is ranked fourth among the nations nominated to become a significant producer of green hydrogen by 2050. (IRENA).
According to the agency’s paper, “The Geopolitics of Energy Transition: The Hydrogen Factor,” the hydrogen generated in Morocco would cover nearly 12% of world energy consumption.
In its effort to eliminate fossil fuels, Samir Rashidi, Deputy Director-General of the Institute for Research in Solar and Renewable Energy, claims that Morocco can manufacture green hydrogen by utilizing its existing solar and wind energy.
Many European nations have indicated an interest in Morocco’s infrastructure, which qualifies it to provide it with hydrogen via gas lines connected to Europe or through its port network, which allows it to export it by sea ships and other ways.
Morocco is expected to start experimental projects for hydrogen production of 1 megawatt this year, followed by medium and large projects with a capacity of 100 megawatts in late 2025, with a goal of achieving a size of 1 gigawatt by the end of the decade, according to the spokesperson.
Morocco has been working on developing this industry for more than five years and has developed a series of studies before disclosing a hydrogen manufacturing road map, according to Rashidi. One of the initiatives relating to this field’s research, innovation, and development.
Morocco will certainly be a prominent contender in this industry, considering its strategic location and proximity to many nations in desperate need of this material to convert to renewable energy, according to the spokesman. It will help to promote the green hydrogen industry and make it as cheaply as feasible across the world.
Morocco, according to Mohamed Benabou, a climate, and sustainable development expert, is one of the countries that has presented a distinguished model in the field of developing renewable energies, and that has bet on hydrogen production and placed it among their priorities, due to the qualifications and elements that can nominate it to become one of the leading countries in this sector.
Other factors that contributed to Morocco’s energy transformation, according to the speaker in an interview with “Sky News Arabia,” include its strategic location and climate diversity, as well as its human and logistical qualifications, which qualify it to become one of the leading countries in hydrogen production and export.
According to Benabou, investigations show that Morocco is capable of producing hydrogen at the lowest cost, making it the center of worldwide attention on this subject.
Morocco, according to the environmental expert, is taking consistent measures with many of its international partners to phase out fossil fuels and identify potential alternatives to traditional energy sources, particularly hydrogen.
Hydrogen generation necessitates electrolysis of water using renewable energy sources to extract hydrogen from the water before producing clean energy that is carbon dioxide-free.
