Cairo and Muscat win new green hydrogen projects
Flurry of developments places Egypt and Oman ahead of regional rivals in race to become exporters of green hydrogen
New York-based clean energy specialist H2 Industries has unveiled plans for its second giant waste-to-hydrogen (WtH) project, adding a scheme in Oman to a similar venture in Egypt announced three months previously. The choice of locations for these projects is telling. Both countries are under pressure to source new export income and are endowed with natural advantages making them ideally for the production and export of green hydrogen. These factors are placing them at the forefront of the sector’s development in the Middle East, with announcements of new projects and progress on existing ones coming thick and fast. The production of hydrogen from urban waste is a niche attracting growing i
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