The Egyptian-German Green Hydrogen Partnership serves as a strategic and dialogue platform to foster the hydrogen cooperation between Egypt and Germany. With its high wind and solar power potential, Egypt is in a prime position to become a key player in green hydrogen production. The country is undertaking great efforts to advance in the hydrogen sector, aiming to capture 8 % of the tradable hydrogen market by 2040 and to become a regional Power-to-X (PtX) and Green Hydrogen Hub. With its goals for imports and use of hydrogen and its downstream products, Germany supports the development of hydrogen production in partner countries like Egypt to ensure both export readiness and local supply and to accelerate the implementation of Egypt´s national low-carbon hydrogen strategy.
Against this background, the Egyptian -German Green Hydrogen Partnership facilitates political dialogue, promotes best-practice and knowledge exchange, supports an enabling framework and connects business with politics to tackle the energy transition and further green hydrogen market development – together.
What we do
Facilitating political dialogue
The Egyptian -German Green Hydrogen Partnership fosters high-level policy dialogue on hydrogen and related energy and industry matters. We facilitate political meetings and ensure ongoing exchange between key policymakers.
Promoting best-practice exchange
We connect key stakeholders for valuable knowledge exchange at workshops, conferences and delegation trips. By promoting know-how transfer, we ensure innovation and support the energy transition through mutual learning.
Connecting business with politics & market information
We build bridges between politics and business by facilitating market transparency, access to key decision-makers, and empowering companies from Germany and Egypt to voice their needs in the framework of the hydrogen partnership with the goal of joint investments, project development and technology cooperation for green hydrogen between both countries.
Contact data
Diana Kraft-Schäfer
Head of Secretariat for the Egyptian-German Green Hydrogen Partnership
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Dr Ibrahim Abou El-Naga, Al Hadiqah Ad Dawleyah, Nasr City
4441310 Cairo Governorate, Egypt
+20 128 783 6121
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Enormous potential for green hydrogen production
Egypt has produced green hydrogen (mainly green Ammonia as green hydrogen derivative, produced with renewable energy) so far on a small scale. At the same time the country has vast experiences producing grey hydrogen (fossil fuel based grey Ammonia), especially for the fertilizer industry, also in the EU. Industries that may greatly benefit from Egyptian German hydrogen trade when transferred to ‘green’ with competitive prices are - besides the fertilizer and chemical industry – also other energy intensive industries, such as steel, glass or cement, and also the transport and energy sector.
Milestones & Country Insights
by Germany and Egypt during COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to collaborate in the framework of a hydrogen partnership with the goal of establishing a joint hydrogen supply chain.
First Strategic Meeting of political partners under the Start of implementation of Egyptian -German Green Hydrogen Partnership with , in that context BMWE delegation visit to Egypt (Source).
8th of September 2024: Participation of Egyptian and German high-level policy makers in MEFED24, the MENA-Europe Future Energy Dialogue. The forum was attended by former German minister of economic and climate affairs, Dr. Robert Habeck and Sabah Mashaly, Egyptian Deputy Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy (MoERE), discussing the EU-MENA hydrogen corridors, the challenges to accelerating hydrogen trade between the regions, and EU-MENA electricity interconnectors on different MEFED panels., among others (Quelle).
9th of September 2025: Political Dialogue between BMWE and the Egyptian partner ministry MoERE in Cairo on the current work streams for the partnership and on developments of hydrogen politics in both countries.
15th – 16th of September 2025: PtX Project Finance Training and Finance Workshop in Cairo to enhance capacities on financing requirements in public authorities, and tackle exchange between public and private stakeholders on current hydrogen financing challenges. Both events have been organized by the GH2 partnership ack-to-back with the 2025 Cairo Financing Green Hydrogen Forum.
28th of October 2025: Egypt session on ‘Optimising Egypt’s competitiveness’ at the ‘Hydrogen in Africa Conference’ in Cairo (28-29th October). The GH2 partnership conducted the Egyptian Session and collaborated with the German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein der Deutschen Wirtschaft e.V.) as host of the hydrogen conference.
Official partners of the GH2P are the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) and the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energies (MoERE). The partnership is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) through a partnership secretariat based in Egypt, working in close collaboration with other political, business and technical partners, such as the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Ressources (MoPMR), the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK Egypt), Chemonics Egypt and the Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH/ Geman Energy Agency (dena).
Energy Partners
Implementing Organisation
Political, Business and Technical Partners
The partnership was established in
2023
Factsheets & Studies
Attractive Conditions for Investment and Partnerships on Green Hydrogen & Derivatives: Market Analysis and factsheets provided by the Exportinitative Energie, supported by AHK Egypt
