Gaia Future Energy, a leading green hydrogen energy developer in Africa, and HyDeal, the
promoter of one of Europe’s largest green hydrogen projects, announce the launch of HyDeal
Africa, a partnership aiming at offtaking, transporting and exporting mass-scale green hydrogen
from Morocco and Mauritania to Europe at fossil fuel parity.
The partnership is a response to the stated objective of the European Union of importing 10
million tons of green hydrogen by 2030 as part of the RepowerEU program. It is also in line
with the recent announcements of the governments of Morocco and Mauritania, who intend to
turn their countries into green hydrogen superpowers and to transform their economies through
this clean new energy.
HyDeal Africa is the first industrial implementation outside of Europe of the HyDeal Ambition
platform, which was ranked in 2022 by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
as the largest green hydrogen initiative globally, with participants covering the complete
hydrogen value chain (upstream, midstream, downstream and finance) and including such
groups as Vinci, Enagás, GRTgaz, OGE and the European Investment Bank.
HyDeal Africa aims to import 1 million tons of green hydrogen by 2030 and 5 million tons by
2035 from Gaia Future Energy projects in Mauritania and Morocco in conjunction with
strategic partners. It will focus its efforts to conduct a feasibility study on the design,
development and construction of a coastal subsea hydrogen pipeline connecting Mauritania and
Morocco to Spain to serve offtakers throughout the continent, leveraging on the opportunities
offered by the H2Med pipeline project set to connect Spain to France and Germany by 2030.
Gaia Future Energy and HyDeal have already launched consultations to that effect with
European institutions, national governments on both sides of the Mediterranean, key industry
players and global financial institutions. The first stage of the pipeline feasibility study is
expected to be presented at COP 28 in Abu Dhabi in November 2023.
