PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa stands ready to be a major exporter of green hydrogen and has described the special economic zone (SEZ) proposed for development at Boegoebaai, in the Northern Cape, as a major step towards realising the country’s potential to be a global leader in green hydrogen and derivative products, such as power fuels.
In an address to the second Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium, which took place as a hybrid event in Sandton on Thursday, Ramaphosa described green energy more generally as one of the “new frontiers of infrastructure development”.
He said green energy had the potential to drive industrialisation and establish a whole new industrial reality.
The President gave special attention, however, to South Africa’s potential to use its relatively low-cost renewable electricity to produce green hydrogen and derivatives, which are seen as increasingly critical to decarbonising so-called hard-to-abate sectors and products, such as marine
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