Buserve Limited, which is a Nigerian company has announced their plans to introduce hydrogen-powered generators into the country to enable businesses to reduce their electricity costs.
Mr Laitan Aderinto, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Buserve Limited said at a press briefing in Lagos that the technology was being deployed in Europe.
Laitan said, “We are partnering with a German company. We are starting with the bigger generators with capacity of 500KVA and above. Our plan is to ensure that factories are back to normal; the price of diesel is killing them.
“If the government is ready, we are ready to work with them. For instance, there are independent power plants in Lagos that are being powered by gas. We can have IPPs powered by water instead of having to look for gas before you can power your generators.”
Laitan said that water-to-hydrogen gas mass production technology represented a major scientific breakthrough of the utmost importance.
According to Laitan, the patented technology is based on an advanced proprietary scientific process, which includes the invention of using thermoplasma to convert water into hydrogen gas in high volume for power generation and at much lower cost than any other hydrogen production technology.
He also added that, “Water is the input and less than 10 per cent of the gross energy production is required to power the equipment. For each litre of water fed into the retrofit system, the net output exceeds 1m3 of H2 gas.
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“This is a no-pollution technology designed to shift existing and future industrial power production away from fossil fuels and, therefore, reduce the world’s harmful emissions. Currently, approximately 25 per cent of the world’s harmful emissions is caused by industrial power production.”