Port Anthony Renewables has struck an AUS$30m deal with US-based manufacturer Babcock and Wilcox to deliver a biomass-to-hydrogen project at Port Anthony in Victoria\u2019s Gippsland region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Port Anthony area has always been a cornerstone of the offshore energy industry,\u201d Port Anthony Renewables managing director, Ben Anthony, said. \u201cThis jointly developed Babcock and Wilcox project represents not only accelerated growth of the Port Anthony Renewable Hydrogen precinct, but sees us well on our way to 25 tonnes a day of hydrogen just in the next two or three years \u2013 ultimately leading to the decarbonisation and repurposing of the Bass Strait oil and gas sector.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carbon neutral waste timber<\/strong><\/p>\n The use of waste timber, which would otherwise go to landfill, is considered carbon neutral because the carbon dioxide released during combustion would initially have been absorbed from the atmosphere during a plant\u2019s lifetime. Biomass is used in certain steel-making process in Brazil, but presently it is used in less than 1 per cent of steel production globally.<\/p>\n Port Anthony Renewables is targeting production of over 112,000 tonnes of hydrogen over the next five years.<\/p>\n Eventually, it is hoped clean hydrogen could also become an exportable store of renewable energy produced in Australia and shipped to customers in Asia.<\/p>\n Port Anthony Renewables has entered into joint venture agreements with four key companies currently leading renewable hydrogen innovation within Australia. These are Infinite Blue Energy, Clayton Hydrogen Cluster, Pure Hydrogen International and CAC-H2.<\/p>\n The Bass Strait port is 78km from the Gippsland Basin pipeline network, which supplies 50% of Australia\u2019s natural gas.<\/p>\n The NSW government has recently unveiled a strategy to provide AUS$3bn by 2030 to incentivise the manufacturing of green hydrogen for both domestic use and export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Waste timber will soon be turned into hydrogen at an Australian port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}