Egypt has twin sustainability aims
Egypt waste-to-hydrogen project ticks Cairo’s green boxes
A multibillion-dollar scheme launched in Suez promises to serve the government’s old and new sustainability goals
Twin threads of Cairo’s sustainability drive received a boost in late January as the developer behind a project promising to convert solid waste into green hydrogen at vast scale announced receipt of preliminary approvals. Tapping into a niche subsector of the burgeoning green hydrogen industry, the scheme, which would employ a greenfield plant at the mouth of the Suez Canal, aligns both with the government’s early moves into that sector and its longer-standing effort to interest investors in converting waste generated by a rapidly growing, urbanising population into clean energy. Blessed with rich renewable resources, ample reserves of sparsely populated land and proximity to European marke
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