The emergence of offshore wind and green hydrogen as the solution to an equitable African energy transition could come as part of the same wave, according to oil and gas player Chariot, which is planning to build the continent’s first 10 GW renewable complex off the coast of Mauritania. The London-listed company, which is primarily active in the Atlantic region, has been granted exclusive rights by the country’s government to form a consortium to develop a project of this size to produce green hydrogen off the continent’s western coast. Hosting a significant amount of solar power to capitalize on the exceptional natural resource in the region, the project could also become home to Africa’s first offshore wind farm once it…