SA’s burgeoning hydrogen sector touted as potential creator of 30,000 jobs

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by Neesa Moodley, Daily Maverick October 15, 2023 The hydrogen sector has the capacity to create more than 30,000 jobs by 2040 — or so the Green Energy Africa Summit heard this week. Merita Wickens, the project director at Turner & Townsend and workstream lead of operationalisation of the Hydrogen Society Roadmap , told delegates that the hydrogen sector was targeting 10GW electro­lysis capacity in the Northern Cape by 2030, with plans to increase that to 15GW by 2040.

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