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Electricity and oil ministries clash over green hydrogen plans

Egypt's trade partners and international investors want to speed up the development of green hydrogen by incorporating it into the framework of the East Med Gas Forum. But Cairo's Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy does not see eye to eye with its Ministry of Petroleum and Resources over the way forward. [...]

Published on 28/03/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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