Hydrogen and energy storage engineering

Produce hydrogen from renewable electricity, and store and move energy to run factories and ships.

• Electrolysis
• Fuel cells
• Energy storage
• Gas safety

In Arabic: هندسة الهيدروجين وتخزين الطاقة

Examples of graduates’ jobs, not a full or ranked list. A job is an occupation; the major is one route to it:

• Hydrogen engineer
• Energy storage engineer
• Process engineer
• Energy safety engineer

Professional classification with the Saudi Council of Engineers.

GASTAT does not publish pay for each major; this is the average for the “Engineering, manufacturing and construction” field among Saudi bachelor’s holders, 2024 (1445–1446 AH)¹.

Unemployment among Saudi graduates of the field (bachelor’s, all ages)¹:

• 20211442–1443 AH5.6%
• 20221443–1444 AH5.3%
• 20231444–1445 AH5.0%
• 20241445–1446 AH4.6%

For the whole field, not this major alone. Past measurement, not a forecast.

Example programmes abroad

• University of Birmingham, Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Applications MRes
• TU Delft, MSc Sustainable Energy Technology

• The NEOM green hydrogen plant runs on about 4 gigawatts of solar and wind power and targets 600 tonnes of hydrogen a day.²
• Low-emissions hydrogen projects worldwide have passed 200 committed final decisions, up from a handful of demonstrations.³