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Kenya eyes green hydrogen to deepen renewable energy usage

Left: Sebastian Groth, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Kenya, Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International ClimateAction, the German Federal Foreign Office, Daniel Kiptoo, Director General, Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Davis Chirchir, Cabinet Secretary, Energy & amp;Petroleum and Alex Wachira, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Energy & Petroleum, State Department of Energy during the launch of the guidelines on Green Hydrogen and its Derivatives.[James Wanzala,Standard]

Kenya is looking at deepening its renewable energy use through green hydrogen, which is tipped to hold immense potential in cleaning up industries as well as creating new jobs locally across different sectors.

The country hopes to make use of hydrogen produced using wind, solar and geothermal power plants whenever they are not feeding the national electricity grid.

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