Real Energy Corporation Limited’s 100%-owned hydrogen division Pure Hydrogen Corporation Pty Ltd said its Joint Venture (JV) company with Liberty Hydrogen, Pure Hydrogen International Inc., has signed a deal with hydrogen project development company Port Anthony Renewables Limited for the production facility.
Real Energy’s managing director, Scott Brown, said: “Pure Hydrogen is pleased to be partnering with Port Anthony Renewables, and together, we are committed to building and operating a hydrogen plant at Port Anthony that encompasses best-of-breed hydrogen and fuel cell technology that is available today. This is an ideal site for a hydrogen hub with the necessary attributes to cater for both domestic and international markets.”
Four hydrogen hubs
In January, Pure Hydrogen entered into a joint venture with Liberty Hydrogen to build and develop four hydrogen manufacturing and distribution hubs on Australia’s East Coast – Project Jupiter (Gladstone), Project Mars (Mackay), Liberty North (Newcastle) and Liberty South (Port Anthony South East Victoria), which have been identified as prime locations for Pure Hydrogen’s expansion into cutting-edge hydrogen and fuel-cell technology. Port Anthony Renewables Limited would have a 30% equity stake in the Liberty South hydrogen project
Pure Hydrogen’s plan is to rapidly assemble all parts of the value chain during 2021 with the goal to build and develop a large-scale hydrogen business by seeking to lock in agreements with potential end users or partnerships with businesses that have shared goals; securing four east coast port Hydrogen Hubs in a JV with Liberty Hydrogen; and securing JV’s with hydrogen manufacturing and distribution specialists to build pilot plants at the Hubs.
Port Anthony scope
Port Anthony is located 196km to the East of Melbourne in South Gippsland and has been continuously used commercially since 1966 to service the Bass Strait offshore oil and gas field with project cargo, and support services to exploration, construction and production.
It is the only Victorian shipping terminal east of Melbourne that caters for handling dry-bulk cargoes with particular focus on bulk commodities in various forms for which facilities in Melbourne are either unavailable or cost prohibitive. The facility is linked to major road routes and is developed as an open shipping terminal, catering for general and project cargoes as well as these bulk commodities.