Africa
22 September 2026
Namibia green fertilizer project secures funding
Written by Natalie Noor-Drugan
The Dâures Green Fertiliser Project in Namibia has secured up to $3.6 million in development funding from SDG Namibia One to advance plans for green ammonia and ammonium sulphate fertilizer production.
The proposed Erongo Region facility is designed to produce up to 20,000 t/a of green ammonia and 80,000 t/a of ammonium sulphate fertilizer for Namibian and regional markets. Financial close is targeted for the second quarter of 2028, with commercial operations expected in the first quarter of 2030.
SDG Namibia One, Namibia’s energy-transition and green-hydrogen fund, has signed a Development Funding Agreement with Namibian energy company Enersense Energy Namibia. The fund will provide the financing and act as co-developer.
“The Dâures Green Fertiliser Project aligns strongly with Namibia’s green industrialisation ambitions, creating greater value from the country’s renewable resources by using green hydrogen to produce a critical agricultural input at home,” said Mercia Geises, chief executive of Namibia Hydrogen Fund Managers.
Green ammonia and fertilizer
The project would use 60 MW of solar photovoltaic capacity, 10 MW of wind generation and a 65 MWh battery-energy-storage system to supply a 40 MW electrolyser. The resulting green hydrogen would be converted into green ammonia and then ammonium sulphate fertilizer.
SDG Namibia One’s funding forms part of a development budget of up to $7.07 million and is supported by the European Union’s Global Gateway strategy and Invest International. It will support engineering, permitting, environmental and social studies, market development and work to secure bankable offtake agreements.
The commercial project builds on Enersense’s Dâures Green Hydrogen Village pilot. The pilot is expected to produce Namibia’s first locally manufactured green fertilizer in the fourth quarter of 2026.
The commercial project is expected to avoid about 48,000 t/a of CO₂-equivalent emissions by replacing fertilizer production based on grey ammonia and create up to 115 permanent jobs.
The Dâures transaction is SDG Namibia One’s fourth investment. The fund has previously invested in Hyphen’s gigawatt-scale green-hydrogen project, HyIron’s Oshivela green-iron project and the Zhero Molecules Walvis Bay green-ammonia project.
