Morocco is becoming increasingly more prominent in the field of renewable energies, becoming a major player in the energy transition in Africa, specifically in terms of an emerging green hydrogen sector.
While Morocco is planning on supplying Germany with green hydrogen, the Tagesschau program broadcast on the first German channel Das Erste devoted a report on the assets of the Kingdom in the field, recalling how the country is considered “pioneer of Africa in green energy.”
The program recalled that the Kingdom ranks seventh in the Climate Protection Index 2023, just behind countries like Denmark and Sweden.
Green energy from water, wind and sun already covers 20% of Morocco’s energy needs, but the country’s green ambitions are even bigger and translate through various projects, explains Moroccan energy expert Rahal Lagnaoui.
If the country’s ambition is to become a world leader in the production of green hydrogen, and with the support of Germany, Morocco plans to build a hydrogen plant with more than 300 million euros, and the first green hydrogen should be produced starting 2025.
“With the German investment, Morocco is advancing its energy turnaround; in return, Germany will receive Moroccan green hydrogen in the future,” highlighted the report.
“The idea is not to make Morocco the future Russia for hydrogen, but an important player with which we can produce green hydrogen with high added value and low cost, competitively and in the short term,” says Samir Rachidi, deputy head of the National Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies (IRESEN).
The German-Moroccan alliance will allow Morocco to “accelerate its own energy transition and thus reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and the import of fossil energy,” the program adds.
However, the program points out some challenges, starting with water scarcity and drought. For this, “the idea is in fact to use exclusively desalinated seawater to produce hydrogen,” explains Samir Rachidi.
Tagesschau recalls that the KfW is currently investing about 700 million euros in the Moroccan water sector, because “with their partnership on hydrogen, the Moroccan state and the German state are aiming for a win-win situation.
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