Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), A.P. Moller Capital (a value-add infrastructure fund manager) and TE H2 (a joint-venture formed by TotalEnergies and EREN Groupe) have signed a preliminary contract with the Moroccan government for land reservation for the Chbika project.
The Chbika project aims to build 1 gigawatt of onshore solar and wind to power the production of green hydrogen through the electrolysis of desalinated seawater and its transformation into 200,000 tons of green ammonia per year.
CIP and TE H2 will be responsible for the development of renewable-energy production for the Chbika project, which is the first green hydrogen project under the Morocco Offer (l'Offre Maroc), a framework dedicated to building out large-scale hydrogen projects in Morocco.
The Moroccan Government announced l’Offre Maroc in March in response to the increasing interest of investors and plans to combine green hydrogen with industrial and infrastructure development.
