Cooking and Cooling with Green Hydrogen to meet UN SDG Goals
KU Leuven, Solhyd, Sioen Industries, Comate, Voxdale, Colruyt Group and Impact Licensing Initiative launch an ambitious Impact Coalition to create clean cooking and cooling solutions that work with solar hydrogen. The initiative aims to contribute with these innovations to UN SDG 7 and UN SDG 3.
Over 2 billion people on our planet are cooking with polluting fuels. This causes 4 million deaths per year and the use of wood for cooking is a major cause of deforestation. It is thus responsible for 2-5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
At least half of the population still lacks access to essential health services. One of the key hurdles to provide global inclusive health access in the developing world is the lack of reliable cold chain infrastructure to store medicines and vaccines.
The initiative aims to use the hydrogen panel technology developed by SOLHYD / KU LEUVEN. Hydrogen panels are modules that use solar energy to produce hydrogen gas anywhere, at any scale. To store the locally produced hydrogen at low pressure SIOEN INDUSTRIES will develop a safe and affordable storage bag.
These hydrogen storage bags will fuel a hydrogen clean cookstove especially designed by COMATE and green refrigerator developed by VOXDALE. The IMPACT LICENSING INITIATIVE and COLRUYT GROUP will develop a business model to scale the technology to create maximum impact in an economically sustainable model.
The partnership has the ambition to demonstrate an experimental prototype as soon as possible and -subsequently- launch a pilot test in the Global South where energy access is a pressing issue.
For more information:
Jan Rongé – jan@solhyd.eu
Johan Moyersoen – johan@impactlicensing.org