green hydrogen - Green Hydrogen and Jobs – Hope or Hype?

To be clear, at the heart of the myriad of issues that surround Namibia’s green hydrogen plans and ambitions is a very simple question: How will ordinary Namibians benefit, if at all, from any of this? This is what matters to the people of this country, for this is the question that many feel inde- pendent Namibia has failed to answer for many to date. [...] Assumptions have to be made about Individual green hydrogen project promoters the labour intensity of each activity and the back- have sometimes provided estimates of the jobs ward and forward links in the national economy they plan to create. [...] and groups of individuals are selected This in a country that has experienced the to run projects Fishrot corruption scandal and the collapse • The presence of Politically Exposed of the SME Bank within the last few years. [...] The mechanisms with elements of subsidy are in use in coun- current estimate of the footprint of Hyphen represents tries that have identified green hydrogen and its deriva- less than 0.7% of the size of the Park, which measures tives as important to reach decarbonisation targets. [...] The port hydrogen extends well beyond the energy sector and infrastructure for green hydrogen will be constructed at has the potential to create thousands of new jobs in the Angra Point, on the other side of the bay and not any- production of the green molecules, the subsequent use where near Shark Island.