TotalEnergies Weighs Exporting Hydrogen From Tunisia to Europe
- Pipeline would send green hydrogen to Italy, Austria, Germany
- Tunisia project would need billions of dollars of investment
Hydrogen has been touted by European policymakers in recent years as key to reducing the use of fossil fuels.
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French energy giant TotalEnergies SE and Austrian utility Verbund AG are considering producing green hydrogen in Tunisia, before exporting the zero-emissions fuel by pipeline to Europe.
Under a memorandum of understanding signed with Tunisia’s government, Verbund and TE H2 — a joint venture 80% owned by TotalEnergies and 20% by Luxembourg’s Eren Groupe SA — will study producing green hydrogen in the North African country. The H2 Notos project would use electrolyzers powered by large onshore wind and solar farms, and supplied with desalinated sea water, to produce 200,000 tons of green hydrogen annually during its initial phase.