Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו<p>「Huge uplift for Eastern Cape on way from South Africa’s R105bn green ammonia project</p><p>The building of the R105-billion <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/greenammonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenammonia</span></a> project by Hive Hydrogen South Africa is poised to be a huge economic uplift for the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/EasternCape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EasternCape</span></a>.</p><p>The large project is the first phase of a multi-phase venture that will be constructed over 16 years. [...]</p><p>The front-end engineering design (FEED) process gets underway next month and tenders will invited shortly after the conclusion of that process in July.</p><p>Funding will be a combination of 70% debt and 30% equity. The final investment decision, which is expected by the end of next year, will be followed by construction and commissioning in 2028.</p><p>[...]</p><p>The building by Hive Hydrogen of 3.6 GW renewable energy capacity is scheduled to begin in early 2025. The solar power component will be built near the town of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/DeAar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeAar</span></a>, in the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/NorthernCape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernCape</span></a>, and wind component north and south of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/BeaufortWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeaufortWest</span></a>, in the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/WesternCape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternCape</span></a>.</p><p>A large transmission grid strengthening programme will enable <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/HiveHydrogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HiveHydrogen</span></a>’s 3.6 GW on to the grid and phases two, three and four of the project will each require additional renewable energy of a similar gigawattage. Interestingly, Hive Hydrogen’s initial 3.6 GW on to the grid will enable an additional 14.4 GW from other independent power producers.</p><p>The one-million tons of green ammonia a year that the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Coega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coega</span></a> project will produce will provide clean energy for a variety of applications, with green hydrogen and ammonia being particularly well suited to the decarbonisation of heavy industries and transportation industries.</p><p>[...]</p><p>Those in the industry will know that one of the most important things that <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Eskom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eskom</span></a> is doing and plans to be operational by around 2029, is to put in two 765 kV transmission lines with about 10 GW of capacity, from <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Gamma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gamma</span></a> in the Northern Cape to <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Grassridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grassridge</span></a> in the Eastern Cape.</p><p>[...]</p><p>When will 20 000 people be employed by the project [...]</p><p>There will be a large number of construction <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> and because this is a multi-phase project, we're hoping to time the construction jobs so that we have a full 16-year period over which we can employ the people, so that it's not a construction job just for a short period.」</p><p><a href="https://www.polity.org.za/article/huge-uplift-for-eastern-cape-on-way-from-south-africas-r105bn-green-ammonia-project-2023-12-14" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">polity.org.za/article/huge-upl</span><span class="invisible">ift-for-eastern-cape-on-way-from-south-africas-r105bn-green-ammonia-project-2023-12-14</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a></p>