The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) expects to launch a Southern African green hydrogen atlas, with 90% of the datasets having been collected.
“In this assessment we focused on detailed technological, environmental, economic, and social feasibility assessment. We also considered present and future local energy use and demand, not to mention future climate projections,” said SASSCAL Executive Director, Dr Jane Olwoch said.
“The date will be determined by the speed of the update of the Atlas after the Technical Review Workshop that took place in August 2022 in Windhoek, Namibia, and it will be released to the public by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) before the launch in each H2Atlas member countries.”
H2Atlas-SouthernAfrica is focused on the assessment of the potential to generate hydrogen in sub-Saharan Africa from the renewable energy resources in the region.
H2Atlas-Africa is the first phase of German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF’s) ‘GoGreenGoAfrica Hydrogen initiative’, with the starting point of the process validating green hydrogen hot spots, which is expected to be followed by the building of pilot plants able to demonstrate the competitiveness of Southern African green hydrogen generation ahead of commercialisation
The work on 12 SADC countries involved 60 experts in the region and about 16 or more developers and mathematical modellers from the Forschungszentrum Julich research institution in Germany.
The 12 SADC countries that participated are Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe-TheBrief/Engineeringnews
