Namibia, India, China, Europe, Australia, Scotland, Bulgaria advancing green hydrogen

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Namibia, India, China, Europe, Australia, Scotland, Bulgaria advancing green hydrogen

Namibian Sun | 3/25/2025

Namibia has produced its first green hydrogen; India has announced subsidies worth $259-million for nine companies in its second green hydrogen auction; China has fired the starting gun on a new era of long-distance hydrogen-powered freight transport; Europe has put forward a “non-price” innovation for green hydrogen-based steel; Australia has picked a Hydrogen Headstart programme winner; Scotland has placed an order for a hydrogen electrolyser; and Bulgaria is stepping on to the hydrogen stage.

Mining Weekly can report that these current-month developments have been announced amid a large number of less recent announcements, and also arise against the background of this month’s South Africa-EU Summit in Cape Town, where European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen stated in direct reference to South Africa: “You have clean energy in abundance, from wind to sun. You have raw materials that are critical for electrolysers, including 91% of the world’s platinum group metals (PGM) reserves, and you have a rising industry to produce clean hydrogen and strong export ambitions.” The summit, hosted by President Cyril Ramaphosa, positions South Africa as a future supplier of platinum-based green hydrogen to the EU.
Interestingly, green hydrogen was first generated in South Africa as long ago as 2012 by HySA with the help of a platinum-based electrolyser, with PGMls going hand-in-glove with green hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cells under the proton exchange membrane (PEM) flag.

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