ACE-FUELS successfully hosted its maiden e-Symposium on Hydrogen Energy, on

Friday, 30th June, 2023, via Zoom. The event featured public presentation of the R&D project tagged ‘’Hydrogen and Fuel Cells for Telecommunications Backup PowerProject (HY4TEL)’’, which is funded by the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC), with Prof. Emeka E. Oguzie as Principal Investigator. The e-Symposium presented a platform for discourse on key ideas, concepts, developments and issues on hydrogen production, storage, applications, local access, and adoption. The event featured four guest speakers, who are renown experts and key players in different key aspects of the hydrogen ecosystem, as well as eight top quality technical papers from professionals, researchers, and postgraduate students in the area. The broad-based presentations touched on hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, computational modelling/AI, fuel cells & batteries, novel materials, economic & socio-economic factors, and some case studies.

Indeed, the symposium succeeded in its key mission to get the academia involved in national discussion and efforts on hydrogen energy, within the framework of the Nigeria Energy Transition Plan, which has so far been dominated by players in government and the private sector. Active involvement of the academia in the Hydrogen Ecosystem shall introduce training and research dimensions in the sector, for capacity building and national development, through implementation of the triple helix model of collaboration between government, industry and academia.

Participants expressed their delight at the scope and quality of presentations and general

organization of the event and eagerly anticipate another edition in the near future.

Participants commended the NCC for pioneering R&D efforts in the field of hydrogen energy in Nigeria.

Details of the e-Symposium, including the event recording and links to the

presentations can be found on: HERE