Browsing: Africa

Europe’s hydrogen import strategy is increasingly colliding with a practical constraint in partner countries: grid capacity. That tension is visible in the European Commission’s decision to back two renewable energy projects in Egypt worth roughly €124.3 million, splitting funding between export oriented hydrogen derivatives and domestic grid reinforcement.

Kenya’s plan to develop a mega scale green hydrogen facility is less a symbolic climate gesture than an attempt to leverage structural advantages in geothermal, wind, and solar generation to enter an increasingly competitive global hydrogen market.

Morocco is accelerating its push into green hydrogen and e-fuels as TAQA Morocco and Spanish energy firm Moeve announce a preliminary agreement with the Moroccan government to reserve land for a large-scale green ammonia and industrial fuel project.

Egypt is advancing its low-carbon energy ambitions with a significant allocation of land in the Red Sea Governorate to support green hydrogen development and associated infrastructure.

Kemet Industries Group and China based energy storage manufacturer Cornex have signed a cooperation agreement to establish a battery manufacturing facility in Egypt with an annual production capacity of 5 gigawatt hours.

Egypt’s green hydrogen ambitions are increasingly defined by execution rather than announcements, with Scatec’s 100 megawatt project in the Ain Sokhna Industrial Zone now serving as a functioning pilot for export-oriented renewable hydrogen and ammonia.

Carbon markets remain a marginal contributor to global climate finance, but Nigeria is positioning them as a material revenue stream within its broader energy transition strategy.

Africa’s green hydrogen pipeline tells a story of scale without execution: while developers have announced roughly 38 gigawatts of planned clean hydrogen capacity across the continent, only about 17 megawatts are currently operational.

German developer Möhring Energie has signed a framework agreement with the Mauritanian government that grants access to tax incentives under the country’s Hydrogen Code, a regulatory package enacted in September 2024 to accelerate large scale Power to X investment.

Plug Power confirmed the installation of its 5 MW GenEco proton exchange membrane electrolyzer for Cleanergy Solutions Namibia at a site near Walvis Bay, marking what the companies describe as Africa’s first fully integrated green hydrogen production and distribution facility.