By Alison Reeve, Grattan Institute If you listen to the dreamers, hydrogen is the magical fuel of the future that can replace everything from the petrol in your car to the coal in a steelworks. Hype around hydrogen has been building in Australia since at least 2018. Every government has a hydrogen strategy. Hydrogen has…
HEO opens USA Office Satellite monitoring company HEO announced the establishment of its United States of America office, HEO (USA), on Friday (Sydney time). The company said the expansion reflects a commitment to serving new and existing defence, government, and commercial customers in the US market. The new office in the Washington DC metro area…
CSIRO and Swinburne University of Technology’s Victorian Hydrogen Hub (VH2) have launched a $2.5 million, purpose-built clean hydrogen refuelling station. The station is located at the national science agency’s Clayton, Victoria site, and will be used in research on hydrogen in transport applications as well as for training. The installation is funded by VH2 and…
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group has pressed ‘go’ on three green hydrogen projects in Australia and internationally to cost a collective $1.14 billion (US$750 million) over the next three years. The company’s board announced final investment decision had been reached on two green energy projects including one planned for Gladstone, Queensland and a green metals…
The federal minister for climate change and energy Chris Bowen has definitively included the controversial technology of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) in its net zero plans for Western Australia. In Perth for a series of announcements on the state’s energy future, Bowen was challenged by journalists at a media conference about disappointments with…
Dovetail Electric Aviation has announced a contract from Spanish carrier Air Nostrum for the conversion of 10 aircraft to utilise its hydrogen fuel cell, battery electric powertrain. The Rose Bay, Sydney company took to social media to confirm the order from the airline, which is one of the investors in the electric propulsion technology company.…
The H2Kwinana Hydrogen Hub is progressing to the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) stage, it was announced on Friday, with construction scheduled to be finished “in mid-2027”. Energy minister Chris Bowen said that the project had made “one major step forward” ahead of producing “over 14,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per annum” for use in industry…
By Anna Skarbek, Climateworks Centre; Anna Malos, Monash University, and Michael Li, Monash University Every bit of warming matters if we want to avoid the worst impacts for climate change, as the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows. In 2020, we released modelling showing how Australia could get to net zero…
Queensland is firming a renewable energy future with the delivery of the state’s first renewable energy peaking power plant now officially underway. In a partnership led by publicly owned energy company, CS Energy, GE Vernova will supply hydrogen ready peaking generation units, decreasing future reliance on fossil gas. GE Vernova will supply the equipment for…
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle manufacturer H2X Global has advanced its ambitions to produce fuel cell light commercial vehicles, unveilling what was billed as a new Hydrogen Professional Van prototype at a recent Body Engineering Days Conference. The prototype appears to be a development of the company’s proposed Darling van which has been seen in artists’…