Nairobi, March 21 -- As the world grapples with the urgent need to transition towards sustainable energy sources, Kenya has gazetted new regulations allowing processing of green hydrogen for commercial use.

Long overlooked as a potential alternative energy and raw material source for industrial, transport, and domestic use, green hydrogen is emerging as a cheap energy carrier used directly or in the form of its derivatives like e-methanol, e-ammonia, or e-fuels to replace fossil fuels, coal or gas.

Green hydrogen complements ongoing efforts to deepen adoption of renewable energies such as geothermal, wind, solar and hydropower sources of energy that now produce upto 80 percent of Kenya's electricity.

Unlike conventional methods which r...