A short GHNA note on the resource trade-offs every project must confront early—before financing conversations begin.
Green hydrogen is produced from water and renewable electricity. That simple sentence hides complex choices about basins, grids, coastal desalination, and competing uses for land and power.
African projects succeed when resource planning is honest from day one. Map renewable curtailment and grid congestion. Assess freshwater stress and desalination energy penalties. Publish environmental baselines communities can understand. Lenders increasingly treat these as core diligence—not optional annexes.
GHNA encourages governments and developers to treat resource integrity as a competitiveness advantage: projects that protect water and livelihoods are more durable, and more investable, over the long term.
