Potential for Green Hydrogen Production from Biomass, Solar and Wind for the rising of Green Hydrogen Economy in Togo

Abstract

Potential of green hydrogen producing from biomass, solar and wind in Togo has been performed. The availability of all 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. In order to evaluate the potential of green hydrogen from all these resources these conversions rates were used: for solar resource, 3% of land were 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. Finally, biomass is the leading resource for producing green hydrogen from renewable energy resource; with good impact in these two cantons: Bassar, Gobe/Eketo/Gbadi N'Kugna. This study has shown that biomass is the lead source of energy but is still decreasing and in some cantons it is null.