South Africa’s battery energy storage market is gaining strategic importance as renewable energy deployment accelerates, but the country’s ambitions to build a domestic manufacturing ecosystem face the same structural challenges that have weakened much of its industrial base: high energy costs, inconsistent demand, and intense competition from low-cost imports.
South Africa’s Coega Green Ammonia Project has moved closer to execution after project developer Hive Hydrogen selected Topsoe A/S to provide approximately $1 billion worth of electrolyzer and ammonia synthesis equipment.
Egypt is positioning green hydrogen and Sustainable Aviation Fuel as part of a broader strategy to align its aviation sector with tightening international emissions standards and emerging low-carbon fuel markets.
Stellantis is expanding its circular economy strategy in the Middle East and Africa through a new vehicle dismantling center in Casablanca, underscoring how automakers are increasingly treating end of life vehicle management as both a supply chain necessity and a cost control mechanism rather than a peripheral sustainability initiative.
Egypt is positioning itself as one of the most aggressive emerging market contenders in the global green hydrogen race, leveraging low-cost renewable energy potential and access to major shipping corridors to attract international industrial investors.
In Kenya’s Rift Valley, a pilot led by Cella Mineral Storage and Octavia Carbon has completed an early-stage underground CO2 injection, marking only the fourth known instance globally where direct air capture has been paired with geological storage in an integrated system.
Global mean sea level has risen by 9.4 centimeters since 2000, with satellite data showing an average annual increase of 3.64 millimeters since 1999, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. The rate is not static. It has accelerated from 1.3 millimeters per year in the early 20th century to 3.7 millimeters per year in the most recent observational window assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Egypt is intensifying its push into the green hydrogen market through a national program designed to address one of the sector’s core barriers: project readiness. Launched by the Suez Canal Economic Zone in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the National Clean Hydrogen Program targets early-stage constraints that have slowed hydrogen deployment across emerging markets.
A planned Mediterranean green hydrogen hub in Alexandria is moving into structured feasibility assessment after AlexFert, a subsidiary of Valmore Holding, signed a memorandum of understanding with Orascom Construction, Abu Qir Fertilizers and Chemical Industries, and UEG Green Hydrogen Development Holding Limited during EGYPES 2026.
