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Tunisia signs 6 MoUs to produce green hydrogen: Tunisia’s Industry, Mines and Energy Ministry signed six MoUs with a number of international firms to produce green hydrogen in the country, according to a statement. No further details on planned capacity, investment tickets, or timelines were disclosed.
The list of agreements include:
- An MoU with a consortium including Tunisia-based energy firm TuNur, Norway's Aker Horizons and Austria's Verbund ;
- An agreement with British company Savannah Energy ;
- An agreement with French company HDF Energy ;
- An MoU with Irish company Amarenco and Dubai-based H2 Global Energy ;
- An agreement with Belgium's Deme Hyport ;
- An MoU with Germany's Abo Energy.
Part of a bigger plan: The ministry said the agreements come under Tunisia’s national green hydrogen strategy which targets the production of 8.3 mn tons of green hydrogen and derivatives annually by 2050. Some 2.3 mn tons of the green hydrogen will be used locally while 6 mn tons will be directed to exports. The strategy seeks to attract investments worth approximately EUR 120 bn, leveraging Tunisia’s industrial and energy infrastructure.
Tunisia is going big on hydrogen this year: TE H2 — a JV between French energy giant TotalEnergies and Luxembourg’s Eren Groupe — and Austrian utilities company Verbund signed an agreement in May with Tunisia to study the production of 200k tons of green hydrogen for export annually. Acwa Power also 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.
A hydrogen corridor project is also in the works: The hydrogen will be exported to Central Europe via the SoutH2 Corridor pipeline – expected to be operational by 2030 – which connects North Africa to Italy, Austria, and Germany. TE H2 and Verbund will oversee the development, financing, construction, and operation of the project, with Verbund coordinating the transport of hydrogen to Europe.
