Namibia: NNN Wants Stronger Energy Partnerships

Namibia: NNN Wants Stronger Energy Partnerships

Luanda -- President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah described energy as a powerful driver of economic growth and development.

Namibia wants to build the world’s first hydrogen economy

On an afternoon in March in the middle of the world’s oldest desert, Johannes Michels looks out at an array of solar panels, the size of 40 football fields, that stretches toward a ridge of jagged peaks between the ochre-colored sand and a cloudless blue sky. Inside a building to Michels’s left sits a 12-megawatt electrolyzer—a machine resembling two giant AA batteries that is designed to split water into its two component parts, H₂ and O. Behin…

FPSA - Namibia wants to build the world’s first hydrogen economy

On an afternoon in March in the middle of the world’s oldest desert, Johannes Michels looks out at an array of solar panels, the size of 40 football fields, that stretches toward a ridge of jagged peaks between the ochre-colored sand and a cloudless blue sky. Inside a building to Michels’s left sits a 12-megawatt electrolyzer—a machine resembling two giant AA batteries that is designed to split water into its two component parts, H₂ and O. Behin…