Category: hydrogen

May 5, 2025

Labor landslide keeps green hydrogen dream alive

Australia’s fledgling green hydrogen sector and its backers have welcomed the Albanese government’s comprehensive election win, which keeps ambitions of a globally competitive export industry afloat. A change in government would have unwound more than $10 billion in planned industry incentives over the next decade to bridge the gap to sustainable markets. But Labor’s win…

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March 20, 2025

WA green hydrogen mega-project gets an $814m headstart

The federal government will try and kickstart Australia’s large-scale green hydrogen sector with up to $814 million in production credits for a clean energy mega project 500 kilometres north of Perth. The 1,500 MW Murchison Green Hydrogen Project being developed by Danish renewable firm Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners was announced as the first recipient of the…

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February 25, 2025

Govt ‘very, very close’ to naming Hydrogen Headstart winner

Energy minister Chris Bowen is sitting on recommendations for a huge public investment in green hydrogen production from a $4 billion program that is running months late. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) chief executive Darren Miller on Monday confirmed a recommendation had been provided to government for “at least one” project from a shortlist…

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February 11, 2025

Wollongong hydrogen pioneer links with Saudi energy giant

Wollongong manufacturer Hysata will build a commercial-scale demonstration hydrogen production system with its ultra efficient electrolysers in Saudia Arabia in a tie up with an energy giant powering the Kingdom’s ambitious urban and industrial development. Hysata announced this week it has reached an agreement with ACWA Power to deliver commercial scale demonstrations of its high-efficiency…

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February 10, 2025

$14bn Future Made tax credit plan passes Senate

Billions of dollars in tax credits for green hydrogen production and critical minerals processing will flow from 2027 after the centrepiece of the Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia plan passed the Senate. The Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credit and Other Measure Bill) cleared the upper house on Monday night with the support…

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February 7, 2025

Bowen’s hydrogen pipedream hits hurdles

Energy minister Chris Bowen says the government remains committed to building out Australia’s fledgling green hydrogen industry despite a series of project setbacks and a delay to the government’s flagship production program. The government had anticipated awarding the first major funding from its $4 billion Hydrogen Headstart program by the end of last year to…

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January 31, 2025

Senate committee backs $14b Future Made tax credit plan

A Senate committee has given the green light to the federal government’s plan to direct billions of dollars in tax credits towards the production of green hydrogen and critical minerals. The centrepiece of the Future Made in Australia plan was cleared by the Labor-led Economics Legislation Committee on Friday, paving the way for the bill’s…

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January 9, 2025

Resource sector secures Future Made slowdown

The Albanese government has stripped out some of the urgency in its critical minerals push, risking a slower start in the global green energy race to assuage mining and business concerns that new players and projects could miss out. Treasury had initially proposed a requirement that eligibility for generous Future Made in Australia tax production…

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January 7, 2025

Fortescue backing moves green hydrogen venture to pilot production

Fortescue on Tuesday took an equal top ownership stake in green hydrogen technology venture Sparc Hydrogen as it committed to pilot testing a novel production technique in Adelaide later this year. The Sparc Hydrogen initiative aims to commercialise technology for producing green hydrogen directly from sunlight using research from the University of Adelaide and Flinders…

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January 3, 2025

Midwest Wins Funding For A New Hydrogen Hub

The U.S. Department of Energy is rolling out the first installment of its $1 billion commitment to ramp up clean hydrogen production in the Midwest, part of a bid by the Biden administration to lock in a nationwide roadmap for decarbonization.

The Midwest Hydrogen Hub, which is set to span Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, was awarded $22.2 million late last month as part of a billion-dollar federal cost-share grant through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The hub “aims to decarbonize a variety of industries such as manufacturing, steel and glass production, power generation, refining, and heavy-duty transportation through the use of clean hydrogen,” according to a Department of Energy factsheet.

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January 3, 2025

Midwest Wins Funding For A New Hydrogen Hub

The U.S. Department of Energy is rolling out the first installment of its $1 billion commitment to ramp up clean hydrogen production in the Midwest, part of a bid by the Biden administration to lock in a nationwide roadmap for decarbonization.

The Midwest Hydrogen Hub, which is set to span Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, was awarded $22.2 million late last month as part of a billion-dollar federal cost-share grant through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The hub “aims to decarbonize a variety of industries such as manufacturing, steel and glass production, power generation, refining, and heavy-duty transportation through the use of clean hydrogen,” according to a Department of Energy factsheet.

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December 3, 2024

Qld secures $200m hydrogen export tech facility

Japan’s largest oil company ENEOS will build a $200 million hydrogen export technology demonstration plant in Queensland capable of producing up to 680kg of green hydrogen per day. Queensland’s new Finance, Trade, Employment and Training minister Ros Bates announced the investment on Tuesday, with the plant expected to be up and running in 2026. The…

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December 3, 2024

CSIRO maps $1.7bn electrolyser manufacturing opportunity

Realising Australia’s green hydrogen production targets could yield an electrolyser manufacturing opportunity worth more than $1.7 billion a year by 2050 if government delivers support for local procurement, according to a new report from the national science agency. Published on Wednesday, the CSIRO report highlights existing advantages in critical minerals as well as existing manufacturing…

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November 18, 2024

AMSL Aero’s Vertiia takes to the skies in milestone flight

Flying vehicle startup AMSL Aero has completed the first untethered test flight of its Australian designed and manufactured electric aircraft in New South Wales’ central west. The battery-powered ‘free’ flight took place earlier this month, AMSL Aero announced on Monday, with the fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft taking off and landing successfully…

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November 1, 2024

SA govt’s hydrogen plant secures final approval

The South Australian government’s $593 million plan to build a hydrogen power station, production facility and storage has received environmental approval from the federal government. The approval, announced by the state’s Office of Hydrogen Power on Thursday, comes around four months after the proposal received development approval from the state’s planning minister. The state government’s…

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October 31, 2024

WA becomes first state to set hydrogen export target

Western Australia has become the first state to set a green hydrogen export target following the arrival of national targets earlier this year, but has avoided specifying a quantity. In its refreshed renewable hydrogen strategy, the state government set a target to have at least one offtake agreement — a contract to buy a set…

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October 23, 2024

SA govt partners with Hyundai on renewables

The South Australian government has signed an agreement with Hyundai to cooperate on renewable energy, hydrogen, and infrastructure investment in the state. The Memorandum of Understanding with the company’s engineering and construction subsidiary was signed by South Australian Trade and Investment minister Joe Szakacs in Seoul on Monday as a part of his trade mission…

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October 3, 2024

Origin exits hydrogen despite $115m govt support

Origin Energy will cease work on green hydrogen development despite receiving $115 million in state and Commonwealth government backing for a proposed hub in New South Wales. The decision to step back from the Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub project comes less than a month after the federal government set annual production targets for the sector…

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October 1, 2024

Australia’s first hydrogen fuel cell R&D hub opens

Deakin University has opened Australia’s first dedicated hydrogen fuel cell research and development centre, giving researchers and industry access to prototyping and fabrication infrastructure. Opened on Tuesday, the Hycel Technology Hub is based at the university’s Warrnambool campus in Southeast Victoria and features a first-of-its kind testing station for hydrogen fuel cells with a power…

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September 24, 2024

Rux Energy tackles the green hydrogen storage dilemma

The entire world is on a mission to decarbonise by at least 45 percent by 2030 to try to mitigate the catastrophic impacts of climate change. A number of nations have identified hydrogen as being a key player in these efforts, particularly in assisting heavy industry with the energy transition. But these efforts are currently…

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September 24, 2024

Rux Energy tackles the green hydrogen storage dilemma

The entire world is on a mission to decarbonise by at least 45 percent by 2030 to try to mitigate the catastrophic impacts of climate change. A number of nations have identified hydrogen as being a key player in these efforts, particularly in assisting heavy industry with the energy transition. But these efforts are currently…

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September 13, 2024

Australia sets green hydrogen targets, secures German backing

The federal government has set ambitious production and export targets for green hydrogen to drive the delivery of a $225 billion project pipeline mostly stuck at the feasibility and engineering stage. Climate Change and Energy minister Chris Bowen launched the National Hydrogen Strategy on Friday, committing to co-fund a $660 million German procurement opportunity for…

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September 12, 2024

Bills pave the way for green hydrogen certification scheme

A government scheme to enable hydrogen producers to prove their products are made with renewables and low-emissions energy is now a step closer after legislation landed in parliament on Thursday, five years after policy design work commenced. The Albanese government wants the Guarantee of Origin (GO) Scheme operating next year in time for its production…

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August 1, 2024

FMiA plan risks industries ‘devoid of Australian invention’

Australia’s budding hydrogen industry will bypass local innovation for its supply chains if content requirements aren’t part of the government’s Future Made in Australia policy, green hydrogen startup Hysata is warning. The local electrolyser manufacturer is calling on the government to add additional incentives to its planned green hydrogen subsidies to spur the use of…

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July 29, 2024

Govt defends blue hydrogen funding amid green push

The Albanese government has defended its investment in a controversial coal-to-hydrogen project with the Victorian state government because it honours a Turnbull-era commitment to Japanese partners. Pre-commercialisation support for the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project, a so-called ‘clean’ hydrogen development using carbon, capture, and storage (CCS), comes despite the federal government’s commitment to making…

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July 22, 2024

Hydrogen subsidy rules enough to spur green investment: Industry

Industry groups have backed the exclusion of strict ‘green’ rules from billions of dollars in hydrogen tax incentives under the Future Made in Australia program, despite such rules featuring in equivalent programs overseas. The proposed rules avoid complex requirements that could inhibit early-stage projects, experts say, with some confident the incoming Guarantee of Origin emissions…

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July 10, 2024

Sydney lands Australia’s first hydrogen aviation fuel port

Sydney’s Bankstown Airport has become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to offer hydrogen fuel, in a tie-up that offers local flying vehicle startup AMSL Aero a way to extend the range of its electric aircraft. AMSL Aero announced the partnership with airport operator Aeria Management Group (AMG) on Wednesday, describing it as a landmark…

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July 10, 2024

Sydney lands Australia’s first hydrogen aviation fuel port

Sydney’s Bankstown Airport has become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to offer hydrogen fuel, in a tie-up that offers local flying vehicle startup AMSL Aero a way to extend the range of its electric aircraft. AMSL Aero announced the partnership with airport operator Aeria Management Group (AMG) on Wednesday, describing it as a landmark…

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June 28, 2024

Treasurer unveils tax credit requirements for renewable hydrogen

Initial requirements for $14 billion worth of production tax credits are more favorable toward renewable hydrogen investments than other jurisdictions, but a list of eligible outputs from critical mineral projects has yet to be determined. Consultation on the design of the two production credits was launched on Friday by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. The hydrogen tax…

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June 20, 2024

SA unveils strategy to export green iron by 2030

South Australia has set 2030 as the target for its first green iron exports in a new state strategy that paves the way forward for the burgeoning industry. The Green Iron and Steel Strategy was launched on Thursday alongside an expression of interest process inviting industry to “co-design, co-investigate” ‘pit-to-port’ green iron projects in the…

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