Study day on how to defossilise the energy mix in Algeria
In March 2023, the Algerian hydrogen development strategy identified international cooperation, and research and development, as an essential basis for promoting the new sector. Both strategic levers are currently gaining more importance.
Within the framework of Algerian-German cooperation, the Higher National School of Renewable Energies, Environment and Sustainable Development of Batna (RE2 SD), the Laboratory of Applied Energy Physics of the University of Batna, and the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation, organised a study day involving key stakeholders in the implementation of the new hydrogen strategy.
Focusing on the overall energy transition towards renewable energies and the role of green hydrogen and PtX within this, national ministerial decision-makers and technical experts, including the Algerian Ministry of Energy and Mines and the oil and gas company SONATRACH, exchanged their views.
The experts reaffirmed Algeria’s renewable energy potential focusing on its solar potential, which could reach 3000 hours per year. Participants also discussed the technical and socio-economic aspects of integrating renewable energy into the grid and of the production and transport of green hydrogen. Siemens and the UTBM University in France presented the state of the art for electrolyser technology, hydrogen storage and current research.
This was just one step in the ongoing technical cooperation on green hydrogen and renewable energy development between Algeria and Germany, with a particular focus on concrete project development.
