Australia’s Renewable Energy Agency is investing AUD1.5m ($1.1m) in an AUD3.3m hydrogen hub, with Japan seen as a potential customer. The Australian Hydrogen Council has been working on the project for more than two years and says it will be able to provide up to 100 jobs over its first five years. Japan has spent more than $16bn on hydrogen research since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the Australian plant will export green hydrogen to power the 2020 Tokyo Olympics using specialised tankers built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Kawasaki is already part of a government-backed scheme to gasify brown coal to make hydrogen in Victoria state.
Australia’s Renewable Energy Agency is investing AUD1.5m ($1.1m) in an AUD3.3m hydrogen hub, with Japan seen as a potential customer. Electrolysis will be used to generate green hydrogen, which will fuel a range of gas appliances, blended into natural gas supplies and exported. Japan has spent more than $16bn on hydrogen research since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the Australian plant will export green hydrogen to power the 2020 Tokyo Olympics using specialised tankers built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Kawasaki is already part of a government-backed scheme to gasify brown coal to make hydrogen in Victoria state.