(Food/Adelaide) – The RWE subsidiary RWE Supply & Trading GmbH and the Australian project developer Hydrogen Utility Pty Ltd (H2U) want to jointly develop hydrogen trading between Australia and Germany. According to the information, green hydrogen produced in Australia will be brought to Europe. The planned liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in Brunsbüttel is “ideal for importing hydrogen to Germany”. RWE explained that it wanted to book capacity there.
H2U is developing several hydrogen projects in Australia and New Zealand, including the Eyre Peninsula Gateway Project. It is the first in a pipeline of green hydrogen and ammonia projects. The first expansion stage includes a 75 megawatt electrolysis plant and an ammonia production plant with a capacity of 120 tons per day (around 40.000 tons of ammonia per year). In a second expansion phase, H2U wants to expand the electrolysis capacity to 1,5 gigawatts over the next few years.
RWE Supply & Trading operates from Essen as a global energy and raw materials trader. The group and H2U are already working together as part of the Australian “HySupply” feasibility study. Awarded at the end of last year by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for a period of two years, the project aims to explore opportunities for international cooperation in the production, storage, transport and use of hydrogen from renewable energy sources. The University of New South Wales in Sydney (UNSW) is leading the consortium of Australian research and industrial partners who, together with German researchers and companies, are investigating the feasibility of a renewable energy-based hydrogen supply chain between the two countries. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Australian government signed a corresponding cooperation agreement (we reported).
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Green hydrogen could be delivered to Germany from the future H2U hydrogen site in South Australia. / © RWE
