Jordan’s green hydrogen plans gain traction
Investors are starting to register interest in the kingdom’s potential to be a significant producer and exporter
Jordan’s plans to become a major green hydrogen producer received their biggest vote of confidence to date in mid-November, as four international and local investors provisionally agreed to develop a combined 1.5mt/yr of green ammonia capacity. The breakthrough comes as attention starts to focus on the kingdom’s plentiful solar resources, its potential as a green fertiliser producer, and the export and bunkering opportunities provided by the expanding Aqaba deepwater port on the Red Sea. Jordan’s regionally anomalous fossil fuel poverty, and the enormous fiscal cost of relying on imports for more than 90% of supplies, prompted an early and substantial adoption of renewables—which accounted f
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