Abidjan: The Africa Green Hydrogen Forum launched today
The economic capital of Ivory Coast, Abidjan, hosted this morning the launch of the Africa Green Hydrogen Forum, organised in collaboration with the African Development Bank.
This event of two days will bring together “senior government officials from the Africa Green Hydrogen Alliance member countries (Egypt, Kenya, Mauritania, Morroco, Namibia, South Africa), as well as other selected countries’ technocrats who oversee green hydrogen development”, said a statement of African Development Bank.
The forum aims to boost the development and the exploitation, across the continent, of green hydrogen, as an environmentally friendly fuel capable of replacing fossil fuels.
As a reminder, Mauritania is developing currently two pilot projects for the production of green hydrogen and green ammonia, in partnership with CWP and Chariot.
Memoranda of understanding on these two projects were signed last year, in addition to two new ither memoranda initialed, in the middle of this year, to extend the period of the preparatory studies period for a year to come.
Chariot had begun its activities in preparation for signing a final agreement with the Mauritanian government allowing it start the project’s development operations. In this context, the british energy major has, also, striked many deals with the company “Total Arn” and the European port of Amsterdam.
It is expected that Mauritania will start producing and exporting green hydrogen at the end of this decade, according to official documents issued by the ministry in charge of the energy sector.
