Namibia plans to be a major hydrogen exporte
Customers queue for Namibia hydrogen
Offtake and financing agreements augur well for Windhoek’s green hydrogen ambitions
Anglo-German developer Hyphen Hydrogen Energy has secured its second provisional offtake commitment for a planned multi-billion-dollar green ammonia project in southern Namibia—sufficient to cover the output from the entire 700,000t/yr first phase. Hyphen, a newly-created joint venture between German clean energy specialist Enertrag and UK-based investment firm Nicholas Holdings, was awarded the rights to develop Namibia’s first major green hydrogen project in November 2021. The bidding process attracted international corporate heavyweights such as South Africa’s Sasol and Australia’s Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), amid growing recognition of the sparsely-populated, sun-rich coastal coun
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