(ANSA) – VIENNA, 23 GEN – The Italian Embassy in Vienna, in collaboration with the Permanent Representation to the United Nations, hosted an event co-organised with the World Energy Council (Wec) Austria yesterday at the Metternich Palace, entitled ‘Connecting Continents with Green Energy: North Africa’s Hydrogen Road to Europe’.
The event, which was attended by a large audience of experts in the field, is part of a series of energy conferences organised periodically by Wec Austria in cooperation with various diplomatic offices.
The meeting referred to the SoutH2 Southern Corridor Forum held on 21 January in Rome. At the centre of the discussion hosted at Palazzo Metternich were projects related to renewable energies, with a particular focus on hydrogen and its transport also through plans to upgrade part of the existing energy infrastructure.
The Italian Ambassador to Austria, Giovanni Pugliese, who previously served in Algeria, emphasised “the enormous potential that, also in view of the implementation of the Mattei Plan for Africa, the countries of that continent possess in terms of possible zero-emission energy production” and, at the same time, “the importance of combining this ambitious objective with the countless variables that characterise the energy market and which must therefore be carefully assessed in terms of their technological, economic and geopolitical implications. The corridor will strengthen, in terms of energy transition, our country’s interconnections with Austria, which are already significant in terms of energy security through the Snam-Tag pipeline, which, thanks to adjustments, could in the future be used for the passage of hydrogen’.
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The event, which was attended by a large audience of experts in the field, is part of a series of energy conferences organised periodically by Wec Austria in cooperation with various diplomatic offices.
The meeting referred to the SoutH2 Southern Corridor Forum held on 21 January in Rome. At the centre of the discussion hosted at Palazzo Metternich were projects related to renewable energies, with a particular focus on hydrogen and its transport also through plans to upgrade part of the existing energy infrastructure.
The Italian Ambassador to Austria, Giovanni Pugliese, who previously served in Algeria, emphasised “the enormous potential that, also in view of the implementation of the Mattei Plan for Africa, the countries of that continent possess in terms of possible zero-emission energy production” and, at the same time, “the importance of combining this ambitious objective with the countless variables that characterise the energy market and which must therefore be carefully assessed in terms of their technological, economic and geopolitical implications. The corridor will strengthen, in terms of energy transition, our country’s interconnections with Austria, which are already significant in terms of energy security through the Snam-Tag pipeline, which, thanks to adjustments, could in the future be used for the passage of hydrogen’.
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