Jerome Namaseb, the consortium CEO of the multi-million-dollar Daures green hydrogen project anticipates production to begin during the fourth quarter of this year.
Namibia’s green hydrogen revolution is getting closer to reality, although many Namibians are yet to believe this is a true development of the concept of green hydrogen. This puts Namibia’s investments and developing renewable energy on a wide scale at a low cost, creating models for maintaining fiscal revenue maximisation, local development in renewable energy investments, and producing green ammonia. “We revised the completion of the full facility, including hydrogen and ammonia production, to this year’s fourth quarter.
The change has been dueto delays in receiving the shipment of hydrogen and ammonia generation equipment,” said Namaseb.
He added that they will have the agricultural
and all other components on site by the end of August 2024. The Daures Green Hydrogen Consortium in 2022 secured a N$220 million grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to implement a Daures Green Hydrogen Village project in that constituency. Phase one includes a pilot project which ran from 2022-2024; phase 1.5 follows from 2024-2027, where green fertiliser production starts; phase two includes the regional and international export of green ammonia from 2029-2032; and phase three, which is beyond 2032, is for the international export of green ammonia.
The project is expected to integrate application technologies for the utilisation of green hydrogen
in agriculture, ammonia nitrate and cleaning detergents, and fuel cell-operated centre pivots, boreholes and houses. This project is one that many in the region are pinning hopes for it to tackle the socio-economic challenges in the area, such as unemployment, poverty and inequality.