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Western Australian green hydrogen plant to feature 1GW of solar and wind
Image: ARENA.
Australia-based exploration company Province Resources has revealed plans to develop a renewables-powered hydrogen plant that will feature 1GW of solar and wind generation.
Dubbed the HyEnergy Project, the installation will be constructed in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia and produce around 60,000 tonnes of green hydrogen or up to 300,000 tonnes of green ammonia.
The bulk of the energy will be used for large-scale production of green hydrogen products for both domestic and export markets, with a smaller proportion of generation capacity potentially dedicated to large energy users in the Pilbara region.
2 projects will also be among the planet’s largest renewables plants.
Here are the world’s 13 biggest green-hydrogen projects now under development all gigawatt-scale and adding up to 61GW led by a facility that would be both the largest ever wind farm, and the largest ever solar array.
1) Asian Renewable Energy Hub (14GW)
Location: Pilbara, Western Australia
Developers: InterContinental Energy, CWP Energy Asia, Vestas, Macquarie
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Planned date of completion: 2027-28
Expected cost: $36bn
Stage of development: Federal government has awarded AREH “major project status”, which will help to fast-track the project through permitting. State-level environmental approval had been given for a now-scrapped 15GW version of the project (which was to export electrons to Indonesia and Singapore), the developers are now submitting a second application for the 26GW project, which includes green ammonia facilities and the construction of a new town to house worke
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Bell Bay, at the mouth of the Tamar River, once housed Tasmaniaâs only oil-fired power station. It was built in the 1960s and, when it was decommissioned in 2009, a new plant began operating directly next door â Tamar Valley Power Station â which runs on gas instead.
Today, as the world edges further away from coal, oil and gas, Bell Bayâs sprawling industrial precinct has become the unlikely setting for a new phase of the energy transition, one that is increasingly gaining promise as a missing piece in the push to slow global warming: green hydrogen manufacturing.
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Via Fitch:
• Green Hydrogen Technology will lead the global hydrogen project pipeline, with 72GW of capacity in the various planning and development stages. Asia and North America and Western Europe (NAWE) will be the leading growth regions over the decade.
• We expect to see a continued increase in the number of projects being announced as well as a clear increase in the scale of projects.
• Major project announcements in Australia highlight the market as emerging as the dominant green hydrogen producer.
• We expect to see hydrogen derived exports and the ammonia industry emerge as the largest source of direct commercial demand for production projects while oil refining industries become the largest independent onsite offtaker.