Hyphen Hydrogen Energy: Establishing Namibia’s renewable hydrogen and ammonia industry

 

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Hyphen Hydrogen Energy is a renewable ammonia developer, focused on production projects in Namibia. Hyphen’s project is being developed as the first step in the implementation of the Government’s strategy for the development of a large-scale green hydrogen industry in various regions in Namibia.

At full scale development, the project will produce 2 million tons per year of renewable ammonia before the end of the decade, from ~7GW of renewable generation capacity and ~3GW of electrolyser capacity. Renewable hydrogen will be transported via pipeline to the Lüderitz port area on Namibia’s southwest coast. The project is scalable from the planned 2 million tons per year of ammonia production to 4-6 million tons per year. Hyphen has already secured multiple offtake contracts, totalling over one million tons of production volume each year.

This is not, however, a one-off project, but the start of the scale-up of Namibia’s green hydrogen industry. The project is the first in Namibia’s Southern Corridor Development Initiative (SCDI), targeting the production of 3 million tons per year of renewable hydrogen from the entire SCDI, equivalent to ~18 million tons of ammonia. The project underscores huge potential for the African nation. Southern Namibia has some of the best renewable energy generating potential globally, with average wind speeds in excess of 10 meters per second, and up to 2800 full-load solar hours per year.

To discuss the project and Namibia’s huge potential, Hyphen’s Toni Beukes (Head of Environment, Social and Governance) & Giuseppe Surace (Chief Operating Officer) joined AEA Technology Manager Kevin Rouwenhorst in conversation.