Export possibilities mean Australia s clean-energy future can also be the world s aspistrategist.org.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aspistrategist.org.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Total Eren, Province Resources partner for 8GW Australian green hydrogen project Email
Total Eren developed the 256MWp Kiamal Solar Farm (pictured) in the Australian state of Victoria. Image: Total Eren.
A solar- and wind-powered green hydrogen plant in Western Australia has secured the backing of France-based independent power producer Total Eren.
Province Resources, an exploration company that revealed plans for the HyEnergy Project earlier this year, has signed a four-month memorandum of understanding with Total Eren to cooperate and proceed with the installation’s development.
Set to be built in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, the project will be equally owned by both partners and will be developed in two stages. The pair will now carry out a scoping study and aim to execute definitive agreements within the next four months.
19 April 2021
French renewable energy giant Total Eren will partner with Perth-based Province Resources to develop a plan for a massive 8GW green hydrogen facility in Western Australia, another boost for Australia’s rapidly emerging green hydrogen industry.
ASX listed Province Resources announced in a statement on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Total Eren to cooperate on the completion of a feasibility study into the hydrogen production facility in the Gascoyne region of Western Australian.
Province plans to take advantage of the ample wind and solar resources in regional W.A. that has already attracted interest from at least half a dozen rival projects to develop the 8GW green hydrogen production facility.
And this list will undoubtedly grow in the coming weeks and months as more companies seek to get an early foot in the door of what is expected to be an enormous and potentially lucrative new sector. Let s not forget that despite the massive potential for green hydrogen to decarbonise transport, heating and heavy industry, this is still a nascent sector the largest electrolyser currently in operation is only 20MW.
The thinking behind leaping from megawatt-scale to gigawatt-scale is that the future demand for green H
2 will be gigantic, and that costs can be quickly driven down through economies of scale, with a view to making renewable hydrogen cheaper than highly polluting grey (produced from unabated natural gas or coal) by 2030.