SA urged to home in on green-hydrogen export niche

The technology to produce green hydrogen, which is produced by electrolysing water using renewable energy, in South Africa is becoming cost-effective enough to develop the capacity to sell the product in local and international industrial markets, says technical advisory services firm Kambuku Consulting founding director Justin Wimbush. The available technology is viable for South African-produced green hydrogen to be supplied to the European transport markets. This is supported by the fact that countries, such as Japan, are putting in place arrangements to buy hydrogen generated in locations as distant as Chile, he highlights.