Inside Namibia’s Green Hydrogen Tours

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On the 2nd of May 2024, during the visit of the King of the Belgian, mines minister Alweendo and his Belgian counterpart Minister Van Straaten announced a one of a kind study tour that would take 10 Namibians to both Belgium and France to study various aspects of a green hydrogen economy to breathe life into the MoU the two Ministers executed in November 2021.
The study tour spanned two weeks and took Namibians to see world class infrastructure spanning the whole green hydrogen value chain, from electrolyzers, to pipeline infrastructure, to ports, storage facilities, industrial clusters and much more.
Along the way the 10 Namibians interacted with Belgian regulators from CREG, port specialists from Antwerp, financiers from the European Investment, industrialists from John Cockerill, pipeline operators from Fluxys, R&D experts from Energy Ville to mention but a few.
We are now joined by three of the ten who were on the study trip, Mutindi Jacobs from the justice ministry, Joseph Mkendwa from the Green Hydrogen Program and Frans Kalenga from Namcor.