Scott Morrison has promised more than $500 million for regional areas to move to clean energy sources,saying Australia needed to be competitive in a new energy economy.
Power and gas giant Origin Energy has struck a deal with one of South Korea’s biggest steel-makers,Posco,to mull future exports of zero-emissions hydrogen.
Australia’s most advanced project trialling hydrogen exports to Asia has begun production in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley,raising jobs hopes as coal plants retire.
NSW coal plants are under increasing threat from booming renewables,analysts say,as the state government tips $70 million into a hydrogen fund for the Hunter region.
Many advanced nations have committed to net-zero emissions by mid-century and hydrogen is being touted as a growth industry due to its ability to store clean energy from renewable sources.
With governments around the world declaring hydrogen to be central to the future,an Australian firm is developing the first domestic hydrogen products.
Scott Morrison will push for Japan to take Australian hydrogen during a trip to Tokyo where he will meet with new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga for the first time.
The hydrogen industry is being urged to work with the federal government and its international partners on ambitious plans for an export boom.
It sounded like a great idea:convert the Pilbara's beating sunshine and plentiful wind into electricity and send it directly into energy-hungry South East Asia via power cables along the seafloor.
The state has been urged to harness hydrogen to lead the nation in development of green energy and create thousands of jobs.
Europe's largest economy has identified Australia as a potential supplier of the vast quantities of hydrogen needed to decarbonise its heavy industry.