UAE making progress in implementing green hydrogen plans

UAE making progress in implementing green hydrogen plans

The UAE is making progress in implementing its hydrogen-related plans, as well as in its collaborations with international partners to achieve a balanced energy mix, in line with its environmental preservation commitments.

 

This was stated by Sharif Al Olama, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure for Energy and Petroleum Affairs, as part of his participation as the UAE's representative in a virtual roundtable with Hamburg on green hydrogen, a WAM report said. 

 

Al Olama highlighted that the UAE's efforts went beyond its borders to include over 30 countries, which the UAE supported by providing clean energy sources with a total generation capacity of over 10 gigawatts, as well as by investing over $20 billion.

 

Hydrogen has become the next-generation future energy source, due to global efforts to adopt it as an energy source, he added, noting that the coming period will focus on reducing the cost of hydrogen, limiting carbon emissions resulting from its production, and increasing safety to facilitate its global utilisation as an energy source.

 

Al Olama explained that, according to the hydrogen strategies of nine countries, the total demand for hydrogen will reach 330 to 380 terawatts per hour by 2030, and 870 to 1,600 terawatts per hour in