anglo american has become one of the steering members of the hydrogen council a global companyled initiative seeking to harness the potential application of hydrogen in the global lowcarbon energy transition including in fuel cell technologies the company s south africabased subsidiary anglo american platinum is exploring and testing applications for hydrogen and methanol fuel cell technologies in partnership with ballard power systems the department of energy and eskom anglo american platinum started in a month trial of methanol fuel cell prototype to provide electricity to households in the naledi trust community in the free state province of south africa