There are 19 green hydrogen projects in various stages of planning and nine of these have been declared Strategic Infrastructure Projects (SIPs) in terms of the Infrastructure Development Act of 2014. These advances have been made possible by strong leadership from The Presidency as well as the Department of Science and Innovation’s hydrogen research programme (HySA), earmarked to unlock opportunities for the country’s platinum resource.
Despite these promising advances, the current system is optimized for larger players. Smaller organisations and start-ups are limited in access to finance, resources and skills to scale up their activities and thereby, risk exclusion from green hydrogen projects. In the light of these challenges, H2.SA collaborated with Make-IT in Africa, a global GIZ project which commissioned Endeva e.V (an independent association) to implement the ii2030 initiative