COMPANIES: Sasol and ArcelorMittal to breathe new life into SA’s West Coast economy with green hydrogen hub

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The Saldanha Bay Municipality, which suffered a huge blow when ArcelorMittal shut down its Saldanha Steel plant in 2020, will see a welcome boost with the announcement of a partnership between Sasol and ArcelorMittal South Africa to develop a green ...

Earlier this year, South Africa published a hydrogen society roadmap, with targets including:The development of domestic hydrogen supply chains;

Sasol is already leading the Boegoebaai Green Hydrogen Development Project in the Namakwa Special Economic Zone in the Northern Cape, which will consist of seven key facilities, including the construction of a deep-water port, the use of 30GW of wind and solar, and a battery park to power 10GW of electrolysers by 2030.

Kaashifah Beukes, chief executive of Freeport Saldanha IDZ, points out that Saldanha Bay has a strong strategic fit with Sasol’s ambition to be a leading driver and contributor to the development of SA’s green hydrogen economy. Beukes says Saldanha Bay is ideally situated to play a critical enabling role in developing the South African hydrogen economy due to the existing value chains, including rail and port infrastructures that form the Saldanha-Northern Cape and Saldanha – Cape Town’s logistical corridors.

 

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