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Acwa sets its sights on Tunisia: Saudi renewables giant Acwa Power signed an MoU with the Tunisian government to develop a USD 6.2 bn renewables-powered green hydrogen project capable of producing 200k tons of green hydrogen, according to a statement on Friday. The project will include a 2 GW electrolyzer unit, a 1.7 GW solar plant, and a 2.4 GW wind plant.
What we know: The first phase of the project will include battery storage systems and 576 km of low-voltage air transmission lines to connect the energy stations to the green hydrogen facility. The renewables plant will also power a 50k cbm per day water desalination plant. The project will also integrate the needed infrastructure to transport hydrogen, including high-pressure hydrogen pipes, a compression center, and a green ammonia production plant.
The timeline: Feasibility studies on the project could take two to four years, with a planned launch in 2027-2028 and a production date of 2030, TAP reported on Friday.
More to come: Further stages will bring concentrated renewable energy capacity up to 12 GW with green hydrogen production tripled to over 600k tons annually.
Off to Europe: The hydrogen will be exported to Europe via the SoutH2 Corridor pipeline which connects North Africa to Italy, Austria, and Germany, according to a statement picked up by Argaam. The pipeline aims to “supply competitive renewable hydrogen to European demand clusters,” its website writes. It also has strong political endorsement and support from companies involved in the production and offtake of hydrogen along the whole corridor.
IN OTHER SOUTH2 NEWS-
Italy, Germany, and Austria have signed a cooperation agreement to develop the SoutH2 Corridor, Reuters reported on Thursday. A consortium of companies, including Italian gas grid operator Snam, has committed over EUR 4 bn to construct the pipeline by the next decade.
SoutH2 Corridor was just in the news last week: TE H2 — a JV between French energy giant TotalEnergies and Luxembourg’s EREN Groupe — and Austrian utilities company Verbund signed an agreement with Tunisia to study the production of 200k tons of green hydrogen for export annually via the SoutH2 Corridor last week.
This has been in the works: A delegation from Italian energy company Snam visited Algeria and Tunisia to discuss the project last February. Snam was working on legal procedures to include Algeria and Sicily in the project.
