Harnessing green hydrogen: Africa's energy solution

ACCESS to reliable electricity remains a significant challenge across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural areas.

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Expanding grid infrastructure is often prohibitively expensive and impractical due to difficult terrain and low-distance rural urban centers. As a result, millions of people rely on costly and polluting fuel generators or go without electricity altogether.

Off-grid solar solutions have emerged as a promising tool in bridging this energy gap. These decentralized energy systems have improved access to power for households, businesses, healthcare facilities, and schools, driving socio-economic development. However, solar energy is inherently intermittent, dependent on sunshine availability. Equipment is crucial to ensuring reliability, but traditional battery storage solutions are expensive and require frequent maintenance.

A Game-Changing Solution

Green hydrogen storage offers an innovative and environmentally sustainable solution to the intermittency challenge of solar energy. When solar panels generate surplus electricity during the day, this energy can be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis.