JCEE Green Hydrogen Partnership

The JCEE Green Hydrogen Partnership was initiated 2023 and provides comprehensive support to Egyptian partners as they initiate and foster the production of green hydrogen within the Republic of Egypt. The planned activities further aim at fostering relations between the Egyptian and German Industry in an effort to closely link relevant players.  

The activities will focus on bringing together stakeholders from industries and trade to stir dialogue as well as provide stakeholders with capacity development opportunities.  

Egypt is undertaking great efforts in the green hydrogen game, leveraging on its abundant renewable energy resources and infrastructure. In 2023 Egypt defined the goals in this field including in the “Low Carbon Hydrogen Strategy” to capture up to 8% of the tradable hydrogen market by 2040, requiring investments of around $60 billion. 

Germany has ambitious goals for hydrogen use and the German hydrogen strategy foresees to support the development of production site in partner countries as part of development cooperation. Egypt and Germany have a long history of cooperation and Egypt`s promising steps towards becoming a hydrogen exporting countries in the form of tax incentives and ramping up renewable energy projects are laying the foundation for a green hydrogen trade between the two countries. 

In the frame of COP27 which was held in Sharm El Sheikh, the country signed 23 MoUs for at least four electrolyser projects with over 8 GW and adding up to at least 28 GW of renewable energy projects. Furthermore, over 26,000km2 of land with the potential for about 100 GW of RE have been given to the country's New and Renewable Energy Agency dedicated for RE projects. With its wind and solar power, Egypt is in a prime position to become a key player in green hydrogen production. 

Egypt has produced green hydrogen on a small scale until 2019 and has vast experience producing grey hydrogen especially for the fertilizer industry. Further industries that can greatly benefit from Egyptian-German hydrogen trade are among others the transport sector and the steel industry.  The Suez Canal and Suez Industrial Zone add a competitive edge to Egypt's green ambitions are providing a robust foundation for green hydrogen initiatives. 

The Green Hydrogen Component is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and operated by the GIZ under the umbrella of the Egyptian-German Joint Committee on Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection (JCEE).