UAE targets top-ten producer status by 2031
The government is due to publish its hydrogen strategy in April but remains tight-lipped on whether it will include capital or operational support
The UAE aims to be one of the world’s top ten low-carbon hydrogen producers by 2031 and will set out its ambitions in a hydrogen strategy due to be published in April, according to government officials speaking at the recent World Hydrogen MENA conference in Dubai. The emirates have 28 projects in development, ten of which are larges-cale and seven that have either taken FID or begun demonstrating hydrogen production, says the energy ministry’s energy transition expert, Dipak Sakaria. “In ten years’ time, [the UAE] will be heaving with hydrogen projects, but we have not reached that,” Sakaria says. The government has identified three potential hydrogen hubs in the country, with construction
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