Australian Hydrogen Centre to make an Adelaide study into introducing hydrogen into towns' gas supply
Australian Gas Networks received $4.9 million from the South Australian government’s renewable technology fund to help build and operate the Hydrogen Park South Australia project at Tonsley innovation precinct.
The Australian Hydrogen Centre, driven by Adelaide-based company Australian Gas Networks, has been awarded $1.28 million in federal government funding for a study into introducing renewable hydrogen into the natural gas supply to certain South Australian and Victorian towns.
The federal government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) funding will cover 30% of about $4.15 million to complete the Australian Hydrogen Centre study by January 2022.
The study will inject up to 10% hydrogen into the gas supply networks to some tows in South Australia and Victoria, view a view to building that to 100% hydrogen. Australian Hydrogen Centre will share key insights and data from Australian Gas Networks’ flagship project, the $11.4 million Hydrogen Park South Australia (HyP SA), at Tonsley innovation precinct south of Adelaide. Expected to be ready in mid 2020, it would be Australia’s largest renewable hydrogen plant, producing hydrogen and blending 5% into the gas network to about 710 homes in suburban Mitchell Park.
Australian Hydrogen Centre also received funding from South Australia’s energy and mining department and the Victorian government. Industry partners include energy infrastructure business AusNet Services, and leading renewable energy companies, ENGIE and Neoen. Australian Gas Networks is part of Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (which owns and operates one of Australia’s largest gas infrastructure businesses supplying two million customers across every mainland state and Northern Territory.
In 2019, Australian Gas Networks received $4.9 million from the South Australian government’s renewable technology fund to help build and operate the Hydrogen Park South Australia project at Tonsley innovation precinct.
