Tunisia aims to export green hydrogen
Tunisia secures debut green projects
An EU-backed plan to pipe clean energy from the North African country is starting to attract international investors in green hydrogen production projects
Tunisia’s green hydrogen plans took a quantum leap forward in late May as international investors unveiled two massive projects with the combined potential to meet the government’s entire 2030 production target. TE H2, a joint venture between French oil major TotalEnergies and its subsidiary EREN, and Austrian gas supplier Verbund, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the government to study development of a project called ‘H2 Notos’ in the south, where solar irradiation is highest and population sparsest. The project would produce 200,000t/yr by 2030, potentially rising to up to 1mt/yr. It would feed into the SouthH2 Corridor—with Verbund, an official ‘supporting partner’ of the
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