Green Hydrogen Village

Green Hydrogen Village is a community-embedded energy initiative led by Fab Lab Bali in Desa Serangan, a small island community of fishing families, small businesses, and cultural practitioners navigating rising energy costs, unreliable infrastructure, and rapid environmental change. The project asks a different question than most energy transition pilots: not how do we deliver clean energy to a community, but how does an energy transition take root when it's built from the inside out? Treating the banjar — the traditional neighbourhood unit — as an innovation hub, the initiative develops low-cost hydrogen generation, waste-to-energy systems, and hydrogen-powered product applications adapted to coastal life. Alongside the technology, future skills workshops, cultural co-creation, and local champion networks build the social infrastructure for long-term adoption. Throughout, the work commits to legibility: ensuring the energy transition is something residents can see, touch, discuss, and own. Green Hydrogen Village is an experiment in regenerative systems emerging where technology, culture, and collective care intersect — a model for what energy transition looks like when it begins at the scale of a village.