As the state government of South Australia moves decisively to be a first mover in the quickly developing field, Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Future Industries is believed to have submitted a bid to establish a significant green hydrogen project in the state.
With the signing of a significant, 15-year water supply agreement with Water Corporation, a renewable hydrogen plant close to Waroona is on the verge of going into production.
KSOE remains interested in nuclear power. Small modular nuclear reactors, which might power isolated locations and reduce carbon emissions, are being developed for power barges.
A memorandum of understanding was signed by Carbonco, a decarbonization solutions provider founded by DL E&C, with Geumyang Green Power and the Electric Power Research Institute of Korea Electric Power Corporation for the advancement and commercialization of next-generation blue hydrogen production technology.
As part of a significant global drive toward renewable hydrogen, Total Eren, a renewable energy producer partially controlled by the French oil company Total, claims it is considering a huge number of “gigawatt” size renewable projects in Australia.
Toyota Motor Company (Toyota) has been collaborating with Fukushima Prefecture since June 2021 on the creation of new future cities that will use both hydrogen produced in Fukushima and hydrogen-related technology developed there.
As it investigates the use of hydrogen at its Yarwun alumina refinery in Gladstone, Sumitomo Corporation has finished its Front End Engineering Design (FEED) studies for a green hydrogen production plant located at Gladstone, Queensland, with Rio Tinto as a key prospective offtake partner.
Entrepreneur Talmon Marco’s Israeli business, H2Pro, has a strategic partnership with Sumitomo of Japan. Until the end of the current decade, the arrangement is expected to be worth around $250 million.
A contract for pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work on a demonstration size project to manufacture carbon neutral e-methane from green hydrogen in Australia has been signed by Santos Energy Solutions, a division of Australia’s Santos, and Osaka Gas.
Takasago Hydrogen Park, the world’s first center for the validation of hydrogen-related technologies, from production to power generation, has much to teach Malaysia.
