Abstract:
Potential of green hydrogen producing from biomass, solar and wind in Togo
has been performed. The availability of these three resources has been depicted with maps showing them per cantons in Togo, thus, by using the datasets from ESA Biomass Climate Change Initiative, the global solar atlas and
the global wind atlas. The conversions rates used were: for solar resource, 3%
of land was allocated for the analysis after removing the exclusions with a
conversion rate of 52.5 kWh/kg of hydrogen; for biomass hydrogen, the conversion rate of 13.4 kg BS/kg H2 was assumed. Wind resources at 50 m above
ground were not sufficient to evaluate the potential as it is lower than class 3
winds. QGIS version 3.6.4 and R version 4.0.4 were used. Results showed that
biomass is the leading resource for producing green hydrogen from renewable energy resources; with good impact in these two cantons: Bassar, Gobe/
Eketo/Gbadi N’Kugna. However, this resource is still decreasing and in some
cantons it is null.
