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REGIONAL REPORT: MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Renewables richness, energy transition
push Middle East, Africa to explore H2
A. BLUME, Editor-in-Chief
The Middle East is rich in both fossil and renewable energy,
in the forms of petroleum, sunlight and wind. As the chief crude
oil producing region in a world turning increasingly toward
lower-carbon energy sources, the Middle East is preparing to
lean more heavily on its renewable energy sector by developing
its low-cost solar and wind resources to power electrolyzers
to produce H2
for export to green-energy-hungry Europe and
Asia. Established net energy producers will have an easier time
with this, although those countries that are currently net fossil
fuel importers will face more difficulty balancing their domestic
energy transitions with H2
export aspirations.
For example, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia intends to become
the world's number-one exporter of H2
pressed interest in transporting H2
, and has exto
Europe via pipeline if
the economics allow it. The country also intends to generate
50% of its power from clean energy sources and add 60 GW of
renewable power generation capacity from solar and wind to
its grid by 2030. Meanwhile, the UAE is finalizing an H2
map and is looking to add H2
roadto
its 50% renewables energy
and blue ammonia, and inprojects
as green H2
mix by 2050. Domestic energy giant ADNOC is pushing for
large-scale production of blue H2
tends to boost its overall H2
tpy to 500,000 metric tpy.
Similarly, African nations are exploring ways to utilize
their renewable energy potential in H2
and green ammonia value chains emerge as viable, low-carbon
ways to move and store clean, renewable energy. However,
green H2
industries can get off the ground.
This report details some of the major H2
requires green electricity, and some African coundevelopment.
Clear policies must support the expansion of
initiatives and
projects being developed in the Middle East and Africa.
OPENING PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's planned, $500-B mega-city, Neom, will run on 100% renewable energy and include a $5-B green H2
to produce feedstock for green ammonia exports. Photo: Neom.com.
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project
tries lack adequate renewable power infrastructure to support
H2
renewables before coordinated efforts to develop local green
H2
production from 300,000 metric

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