Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone has given H2 Industries preliminary approval for a $3 billion waste-to-hydrogen plant in East Port Said.

The one-gigawatt hydrogen centre will be fed with four million tonnes of organic waste and non-recyclable plastic a year secured at the northern Mediterranean entrance to the Suez Canal.

It will produce 300,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually.

The waste-to-hydrogen plant is currently at the feasibility study stage, which should take about one and a half months, and is subject to final approval from the General Authority of the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone).