Softbank-Backed AMEA Plans to Build a Kenyan Green Hydrogen Plant

  • The 1 GW plant would be situated in the port of Mombasa
  • Dubai-based company is part of UAE’s Africa renewables pledge
The port of Mombasa in Kenya.Photographer: Luis Tato/Bloomberg
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AMEA Power, a Dubai-based renewable-energy company, plans to build a green hydrogen facility in the Kenyan port of Mombasa in what would be a first for the East African country.

AMEA, which is participating in a $4.5 billion pledge by the United Arab Emirates to boost renewable energy in Africa, would start with a one-gigawatt electrolyzer at the site, Chairman Hussain Al Nowais said in an interview at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi on Wednesday.