Marrakech, October 1, 2025 - Funded by the European Union, the MED-GEM Network played a leading role at the World Power-to-X Summit 2025, advancing the debate on how to accelerate green hydrogen and Power-to-X in the Southern Mediterranean. Among its contributions, MED-GEM participated in High-Level Plenary 3 - Securing and De-Risking Off-take to Scale Power-to-X, a central session bringing together global leaders from industry, finance, and policy. This plenary focused on one of the most critical issues for the hydrogen economy: ensuring predictable demand and de-risking offtake agreements to move from pilot projects to large-scale, bankable deployment.

Key insights from the panellists

🔹 Nadja Håkansson – CEO, Thyssenkrupp Uhde

“In the current times of uncertainty, we need to be steadfast. And we need consistent and pragmatic policies to move beyond pilots. Without stable frameworks, costs remain too high and markets won’t scale.”

🔑 Takeaway: Stable regulation and industrial partnerships are essential to de-risk early projects and achieve scale. 

🔹 Omar Alaoui Mhamdi – Country GM, ACWA Power

“Morocco’s vision sets clear expectations: competitiveness at export must go hand-in-hand with local integration and socio-economic impact.”

🔑 Takeaway: Large-scale projects must balance export competitiveness with local jobs, innovation, and community benefits. 

🔹 Susana Moreira – Executive Director, H2Global Stiftung

“H2Global’s double auction bridges the gap between producers and buyers, offering bankability where markets alone cannot.”

🔑 Takeaway: Innovative mechanisms like H2Global can provide predictable offtake, essential to scaling hydrogen markets.

🔹Philip Christiani – Partner, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP)

“Investors look for long-term certainty—credible contracts, guarantees, and policy stability are what unlock capital.”

🔑 Takeaway: Clear regulatory frameworks and stable offtake agreements are decisive for attracting large-scale investment. 

🔹Frank Wouters – Director, MED-GEM Network

“We must move from hype to reality: create regulatory clarity, build skills and infrastructure, work on local manufacturing and even consider strategic hydrogen reserves, most notably in Europe.”

🔑 Takeaway: MED-GEM facilitates Euro-Mediterranean partnerships to build credible, export-ready hydrogen markets under the EU–Morocco Green Partnership (Partenariat Vert). A strategic hydrogen reserve could kickstart the market immediately.

🔹Hicham Chad – Director, TAQA Morocco

“Integration is key: projects must deliver both green electrons for export and value for local communities.”

🔑 Takeaway: Morocco’s projects show that combining government vision, industrial innovation, and local integration creates bankable and impactful outcomes. Through this plenary and its wider participation at the Summit, MED-GEM reaffirmed its role as a facilitator of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. By bringing together regulators, industry leaders, and financial institutions, MED-GEM contributes to advancing certification, infrastructure readiness, financing mechanisms, and local value creation in green hydrogen. Together with its Side Event on October 2 and its Institutional Partnership in Panel 12, MED-GEM’s active presence at the Summit illustrates the value of EU-funded cooperation in building an inclusive, credible, and export-ready hydrogen ecosystem in the Southern Mediterranean.

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