Morocco Aims to Become Green Hydrogen Exporter by 2030, Leveraging Renewable Resources

According to an IRESEN press release, several factors could favor the achievement of this new objective of Morocco. Indeed, the drop in the costs of renewable energies and the abundance of Moroccan sites combining strong sunshine and high wind speeds are elements put forward that would open "new opportunities to produce hydrogen or derivatives without CO2".

On the ground, the work is accelerating for the effective realization of the platform dedicated to research on hydrogen and ammonia. While the Ministry of Energy, Mines and the Environment is closely following the project, the same is true for the various partners, namely OCP and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University on the Moroccan side, and Fraunhofer and its institutes, on the German side.

According to Badr Ikken, Director General of IRESEN, "the project will start with the implementation of a first pilot, to test several technologies for the production of hydrogen and its derivatives based on renewable energies as an energy vector for generation, transport and energy storage but also as a raw material".

According to IRESEN, Germany, which is the EU’s leading economy, will gradually shut down all its coal-fired power plants from 2022 to 2038 and will need to import clean fuels, including green molecules, to achieve its climate and environmental protection goals.

With Germany as its first partner, IRESEN through Green Energy Park intends to make this project a success which, according to Ikken, "will allow the decarbonization of different sectors of our society, while creating a strong opportunity for economic and social development through export".