More than two billion people, nearly one out of three people, around the globe depend on polluting open fires or inefficient stoves to cook their food, which harms their health, as well as the climate and the environment. In cities across Sub-Saharan Africa, charcoal, firewood, and kerosene dominate the market for cooking fuel.
To address this problem, many "clean cooking" programs with alternative fuels and technologies have been implemented with varying levels of success and impact. In areas where electric cooking is not a viable alternative, hydrogen cooking can provide a clean and effective solution.
Green Hydrogen Valleys can play a key role in providing large-scale affordable hydrogen for clean cooking. This is why Impact Hydrogen is developing a program to make hydrogen cookers market ready and develop an infrastructure to make hydrogen cooking widely available and affordable where it is most needed. Hydrogen Valleys can make this ambition a reality, as they provide the necessary scale and interconnections with a region’s energy system.
