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Hydrogen Corridor from Algeria and Tunisia to Germany and Austria via Italy. Ministers Tajani and Pichetto open the Ministerial Meeting and Business Forum on the Southern Hydrogen Corridor

Hydrogen Corridor from Algeria and Tunisia to Germany and Austria via Italy. Ministers Tajani and Pichetto open the Ministerial Meeting and Business Forum on the Southern Hydrogen Corridor
Hydrogen Corridor from Algeria and Tunisia to Germany and Austria via Italy. Ministers Tajani and Pichetto open the Ministerial Meeting and Business Forum on the Southern Hydrogen Corridor

Tomorrow the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, and the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Hon. Gilberto Pichetto, open, at Villa Madama, the event on the Southern Hydrogen Corridor (South H2), an infrastructure project to transport renewable hydrogen for over 3,300 kilometres from North Africa via Italy, Austria and Germany, in order to supply European markets. The initiative is of strategic energy and political importance and is a valuable asset for national energy transition goals as well as in terms of diversification of EU supply lines. The infrastructure is to be operational by 1 January 2030.

The Ministers will host a Ministerial Meeting at which the Algerian Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energies, Mohamed Arkab, the State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Philipp Nimmermann, and high-level representatives from Austria, Tunisia, Switzerland and the European Commission will speak.

At the end of the Ministerial Meeting, a Joint Declaration will be signed between Italy, Germany, Austria, Tunisia and Algeria.

Ministers Tajani and Pichetto will then open the Southern Hydrogen Corridor Business Forum. The presentation of the project, which has been recognised by the European Union as a Project of Common Interest (PCI), will be followed by a debate between companies representing the entire hydrogen supply chain. The discussion will cover the topics of green hydrogen production, with a focus on opportunities for collaboration between Europe and North Africa, fuel consumption, and technological developments in the sector within the energy transition framework.