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Trinidad and Tobago has committed to achieving 30 per cent renewable energy generation by 2030, and reducing carbon emissions in its power generation, transport and industry sectors by 15 per cent, under the Paris Agreement.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) has launched a roadmap to develop a green hydrogen market in the Caribbean island nation. The roadmap, which was developed by the country’s National Energy Corporation with support from the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), states that many of the building blocks for a regional production, storage and trading hub are already in place to give the nation a head start in the market. The roadmap identifies offshore wind technologies as the best renewable energy source available in Trinidad and Tobago in the production of green hydrogen. The immediate next steps consist of a two track approach of securing funding for the programme and launching local demonstration projects. To take the programme forward the Ministry is working on a draft Hydrogen Policy that will support the findings of the roadmap study.

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The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd (NGC) and NewGen Energy (NewGen), a hydrogen start up, have signed a non‑binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on the construction of NewGen’s hydrogen production plant. When completed, the more than US $200 M, NewGen plant will be the world’s largest clean hydrogen production facility of its kind, using a smart combination of solar energy and energy efficiency. It will generate hydrogen to meet 20% of the hydrogen needs of an existing global ammonia plant at the Point Lisas petrochemical center in Trinidad.

National Energy has partnered with the Inter‑American Development Bank (IDB) and KBR in 2021/2022 to complete a feasibility study on the establishment of a green hydrogen industry in Trinidad and Tobago.