Morocco approves $32.7bn for six hydrogen-based projects
Morocco will offer the projects up to 30,000 hectares of land, attracting global investors such as Moeve, ACWA Power and Ortus.
Morocco will offer the projects up to 30,000 hectares of land, attracting global investors such as Moeve, ACWA Power and Ortus.
The two companies plan to explore opportunities in hydrogen production, blending, transportation and storage, and will also evaluate and develop projects for hydrogen applications across the transport, power and steel sectors.
Albanese’s Labor Party has indicated that the funding could support hydrogen electrolysers or battery and storage technologies.
Chancellor-in-waiting Merz has previously said that he doesn’t “believe the rapid switch to hydrogen-powered steelworks will be successful.”
“Importing green iron from our trading partners and allies to supplement the feed to UK and EU electric arc furnaces is the most obvious opportunity that is simply not getting publicly discussed.”
“With this system for on-site hydrogen production, we are fulfilling our side of the bargain. The onus is now on governments…”
Tests were conducted by blending different up to 100% hydrogen with natural gas, resulting in several hundred tonnes of 3000 series scrap aluminium alloy remelted and cast into sheet ingots.
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas said, “There’s no point in producing hydrogen if there’s not a customer for it,” highlighting the government’s focus on securing the steelworks’ future with the new funding package.
“[Clean hydrogen] should first be deployed in those sectors in which it is needed as an indispensable feedstock,” the Future Cleantech Architects report argues.
Green hydrogen “has arrived” and will be pivotal to India’s future energy system, according to Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
