Namibia’s green hydrogen to be verified on blockchain

Decentralised climate data provider dClimate is partnering with Namibia to become a verifier for the country’s carbon impact and sustainability initiatives.

The partnership through the University of Namibia will include establishing a blockchain-native registry and verification system for quantifying the country’s carbon sequestration, carbon emissions and carbon credits from green hydrogen projects within Namibia.

dClimate claims the first transparent, decentralised network for climate data, forecasts and models. Its base layer is built on Ethereum and its network leverages Chainlink’s decentralised oracle network to facilitate on-chain validation and support for dClimate’s governance layer.

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Satellite monitoring will be a key input to the verification tool.

“By working together with the staff, researchers and academics at the University of Namibia, we will be able to verify the country’s carbon credits to help support ongoing green hydrogen projects within the country,” said Sid Jha, founding partner of dClimate.

“This not only represents an exciting use case for how blockchain technology can power climate action, but for how countries can leverage decentralised climate data to support sustainability projects.”

Namibia is an emerging country in the green hydrogen drive, with abundant solar and wind resources and envisages green hydrogen and green ammonia as important export opportunities.

At COP26, the country announced a $9.4 billion project with HYPHEN Hydrogen Energy selected to bring 2GW of renewable generation capacity along with the electrolyser capacity to produce green hydrogen for conversion into ammonia. Further expansion envisages growth to 5GW of renewable capacity and 3GW of electrolyser capacity producing 300,000t of green hydrogen per year.

James Mnyupe, Namibia Presidential Economic Advisor and Hydrogen Commissioner, anticipates that dClimate’s data platform promises to accurately capture the country’s effort to fight climate change and enable monetising green hydrogen in a scalable manner.

“Namibia’s green hydrogen ambitions are testimony to its commitment to combat climate change through its efforts to decarbonise local, regional and global industrial clusters,” he comments.

In addition to its free climate data API, dClimate expects its data marketplace to launch soon on testnet. The data marketplace serves as an app store for climate data with the aim to make information such as forecast data and models more accessible.