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DUBAI / WAM
Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashimy, Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director-General of Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch a pilot project for the region’s first solar-driven hydrogen electrolysis facility.
The announcement came during the 6th edition of the World Government Summit, WGS 2018. DEWA’s outdoor testing facilities at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai have been selected for the project.
The facility aims at testing and showcasing an integrated MW-scale plant to produce hydrogen using renewable energy from solar photovoltaic at the Solar Park, store the gas, and then deploy for either re-electrification, transportation or other industrial uses.