Germany is seeking to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting industrial sectors that cannot be electrified such as steel and chemicals.

Berlin will have to import up to 70% of its hydrogen demand in the future as Europe's largest economy aims to become climate-neutral by 2045, but it lacks the space and conditions for large wind and solar power production.

"Morocco has the best conditions for the energy transition and the production of green hydrogen. Germany wants to import hydrogen," Development Minister Svenja Schulze, who signed the alliance declaration with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Berlin, said in a statement.

--Reuters--