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REGIONAL REPORT: ASIA-PACIFIC
South Australia (HyP SA) demonstration project.
Furthermore, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), together
with the Australian government, is providing A$1.28 MM in funding for the establishment of the Australian Hydrogen
Center. The project will study blending
H2 into existing natural gas pipelines in
South Australia and Victoria.
H2 projects. The Western Australian
government has recently accelerated its
" Renewable hydrogen strategy " by a decade (from 2040 to 2030) and will invest
A$22 MM toward the development of
the state's H2 industry. Among major H2
initiatives under development, a A$51-B
project to mass-produce H2 from wind
and solar power is underway. The Asian
Renewable Energy Hub aims to meet
Australia's 2030 H2 price point of A$2/kg
($1.50/kg); production costs for green
H2 are around A$3.18/kg-A$3.80/kg,
at present. The project will produce 1.75
MMtpy of H2 from 26 GW of renewable
power for conversion into ammonia for
domestic and international markets. Construction is expected to start in 2026, with
first shipments anticipated in 2028.
Also in Western Australia, the Arrowsmith H2 project is a proposed green H2
production plant near Dongara, 320 km
north of Perth. The A$300-MM project,
led by Infinite Blue Energy, is expected to
start up in mid-2022 and produce 25 metric tpd of green H2 from water, wind and
solar energies.
The Hazer Group will build a 100-metric-tpy facility to convert biogas from sewage treatment into fuel cell-grade H2 . The
project commenced in March 2020 and is
planned to run through the middle of the
decade. Also, Hydrogen Renewables Australia Ltd. is proposing a large-scale (up
to 5,000 MW) combined wind and solar
farm in Murchison to produce low-cost
green H2 for export to Asia.
Furthermore, Australian utility ATCO
is working with mining firm Fortescue
to deploy a pilot H2 vehicle refueling infrastructure in Western Australia. Under
the agreement, ATCO and Fortescue will
construct and operate the refueling facility at ATCO's existing facility in Jandakot.
The South Australian government
has invested more than A$17 MM in
grants and A$25 MM in loans for four
green H2 projects. These projects include
Neoen's plans to construct a A$600-MM

renewable H2 production facility to support its solar and wind generation facilities at the Crystal Brook Energy Park in
South Australia. The proposed, 50-MW
H2 super-hub would be the largest co-located wind, solar, battery and H2 production facility in the world, producing about
7,000 metric tpy of H2 .

With a mix of H2 suppliers
and consumers and
a quickly expanding
renewable energy base,
Asia-Pacific will play
a leading role in global
market dynamics
for low-carbon H2.
Another project is The Hydrogen
Utility's Eyre Peninsula Gateway Project,
which will develop a facility integrating
more than 75 MW in water electrolysis
to produce renewable H2 and renewable
ammonia on the Eyre Peninsula. With a
total production capacity of up to 40,000
tpy of green ammonia, the facility will
supply the domestic market and support
trial export shipments of green H2 and
green ammonia to Japan and other North
Asian countries.

The Victorian Government has introduced the Victoria Hydrogen Investment Program, which has invested A$2
MM to boost the development of clean
H2 technologies in Victoria-specifically,
Deakin's project for the creation of an H2
supply chain project in Warrnambool.
Elsewhere in Victoria, a consortium
of Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries,
J-Power, Iwatani, Marubeni, Sumitomo
and Australian utility AGL announced
the commencement of operations at both
Victorian sites of its integrated supply
chain. The A$500-MM Hydrogen Energy
Supply Chain (HESC) project is developing a complete H2 supply chain by producing H2 via the gasification of Latrobe
Valley lignite coal, transporting it to the
Port of Hastings for liquefaction, and
then shipping it to Japan (FIG. 2). H2 production commenced in February 2021.
At commercial scale, the project could
produce 225,000 tpy of low-carbon blue
H2 , according to the partners.
In Queensland, Origin Energy is
working with Japan's Kawasaki Heavy
Industries on a green liquid H2 export
project in Townsville. Furthermore, APA
Group is building a power-to-gas demonstration plant at its Wallumbilla gas hub
near Roma to create methane using solar-generated electricity, water and CO2
from the atmosphere. The A$2.26-MM
project will produce approximately 620
kg/yr of H2 for conversion into 74 GJ of
methane, which can be injected into APA

FIG. 2. Details of the Australia-Japan Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project.
Image: HySTRA.
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