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Being Europe’s main supplier of natural gas, Algeria also aims to occupy this place in terms of green hydrogen, given its great potential in this area, particularly in view of the infrastructure it has. In this sense, Algeria has already established its roadmap for the development of renewable and clean hydrogen.
Algeria’s hydrogen potential was exposed by the Commissioner for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Noureddine Yassa, on the occasion of the closing ceremony of the twinning project between the Commission for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency ( CEREFE) and a German-Dutch consortium, organized on Thursday.
Algeria has great potential in terms of hydrogen production which enables it to play an effective and essential role in supplying the European market with this energy product, Mr. Yassa indicated in his statement to the press, in margin of this ceremony.
“The European hydrogen market is very promising, in the sense that Europeans have developed specific strategies in this area for 2030, 2040 and 2050, confirming the existence of a large demand for clean energies” , did he declare. He affirmed that Algeria has great assets allowing it to conclude win-win partnerships.
According to the same official, Algeria, with its significant potential, can be a main actor and a pivotal partner in the energy transition underway in the States of the European Union (EU), which tend to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. , particularly through the wide use of renewable and new energies.
In addition to its leading role in the natural gas market and its immense capabilities in the field of solar energy, Algeria is working to implement a national hydrogen development strategy, in parallel to the preparation of the large-scale project of the second southern hydrogen corridor, “SoutH2 Corridor”, which will supply this new form of energy to Europe via a corridor linking Algeria to Germany, passing through Tunisia, Italy and Austria, according to the Renewable Energy Commissioner.
According to Mr. Yassa, Algeria has taken important steps in the realization of its hydrogen development strategy, particularly with regard to regulatory and legislative aspects, as well as the question of characteristics, on which the team responsible of this file has made notable progress.
Added to this is the aspect of training and scientific research, where hydrogen has been integrated into several university specialties, with the launch of numerous related research projects, underlined the official.
There are also three pilot projects in partnership with Germany, including the Arzew project with a capacity of 51 megawatts for the production of green hydrogen and ammonia. These projects help strengthen both energy and food security by producing clean fertilizer.
This project, which constitutes the starting point for the development of hydrogen with the German government, will be followed by several projects with a view to producing this material in Algeria and marketing it in Germany and Europe, through the Southern Corridor project. H2 which consists of the realization of a gas pipeline A gas pipeline is a pipeline intended for the transport of gaseous materials under pressure, most of the time hydrocarbons. Depending on their nature of use, gas pipelines can be classified into three main families: 1- gas collection pipelines, bringing the gas released from deposits or underground storage to processing sites. 2- transport gas pipeline or transit, transporting the treated gas (dehydrated, desulfurized, etc.) under high pressure to the gates of urban areas or industrial consumption sites 3- distribution gas pipelinesdistributing low pressure gas as close as possible to domestic consumers or small industries. hydrogen transport via the Mediterranean Sea, which is currently being studied between Germany, Austria, Italy, Tunisia and Algeria.
The Algeria-Europe “SoutH2 Corridor” hydrogen transport is described, by the president of the Maghreb office at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Filippo Colombo, as a partnership based on common interests.
“The SoutH2 corridor project for the production of green hydrogen in Algeria and its transfer to Italy and Germany via Tunisia embodies the principle of the approach of a partnership based on common interests within the framework of the Mattei plan and the concern to diversify energy resources for sustainability in the Mediterranean”, he indicated during a conference on energy and tourism in sustainable development in the Mediterranean Basin.
For his part, the president of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEZ), Gilberto Dialuce, highlighted the efforts made by the organization he represents in the development partnerships in renewable energies, particularly with countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.