Africa Green Hydrogen Summit 2025: Business voice amplified

The Africa Green Hydrogen Summit (AGHS) 2025 demonstrated strong momentum, with prominent stakeholders from politics and business converging to drive green hydrogen initiatives.

This is according to Enrico Brandt, Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy in South Africa, who was a speaker at the summit, which took place in Cape Town earlier this year.

Brandt described the summit as a positive and promising development, highlighting numerous opportunities for collaboration between South Africa, Africa, Europe, and particularly Germany.

“We also had a special envoy for green hydrogen from the German government; that also is proof of the big commitment that Germany has here in South Africa,” he said.

The Department of Electricity and Energy’s strategic priorities identify green hydrogen as one of the frontier industries through which South Africa may reposition itself, not only as an energy consumer, but also as a producer, exporter and technology developer.

“It is woven into our strategic priorities: advancing energy security, accelerating infrastructure investment, enabling a just energy transition, reshaping the energy demographics to propel women and young people into the epicentre of growth and development, and leveraging the energy ecosystem to drive industrial growth and localisation,” explained Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Minister of Electricity and Energy

Cover photo:  South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and the country’s Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa arrive at the Green Hydrogen Summit in Cape Town on Thursday (12 June). Source: The Presidency/X