South Africa has everything necessary to position itself internationally as a producer of green hydrogen, from renewable energies, and derived products, including exceptional potential for wind and solar energy, large usable land areas as well as experience and skills with Fischer-Tropsch processes. The H2.SA project supports harvesting this potential by advising on the framework conditions and strategies necessary for establishing South Africa as a green hydrogen production hub.
The project simultaneously builds up skills in governmental structures, as well as in the private sector, science and research and promotes innovative technical solutions and pilot projects not only for producing green hydrogen, but also for using it in various industries.
The Power-to-X (PtX) Hub South Africa leverages South Africa’s favourable conditions, to drive technology uptake and market development for Power-to-X in South Africa specifically.
Both projects promote the development of criteria and processes to ensure that the hydrogen economy and the associated solar and wind power plants are built in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner. The aim is to improve acceptance for the expansion of renewable energies and hydrogen projects.
H2.SA is funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development with the Department of Electricity and Energy. PtX Hub SA is funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action implemented together with the Council of Scientific and industrial Research. The PtX Hub’s political partner is the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition.
