Sub-Saharan Africa has the greatest potential of any region in the world to produce inexpensive “green” hydrogen fuel — extracted from water using renewable energy — by 2050, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. In this map, the amount of energy potential is measured in exajoules, a unit of electrical energy.
Source: “Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor,” International Renewable Energy Agency, 2022, p. 45, https://tinyurl.com/yuusz8ka
Data for the graphic are as follows:
| Location | 2050 Production Potential in Exajoules |
| North America | 1,314 |
| Latin America | 1,114 |
| Europe | 88 |
| Middle East/North Africa | 2,023 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 2,715 |
| Oceania | 1,272 |
| Southeast Asia | 64 |
| Northeast Asia | 212 |
| Rest of Asia | 684 |