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"A unique partnership between three traditional owner groups and a major clean
energy investor is promising to establish a $3bn green hydrogen project in the
far north of Western Australia.
In what could be one of Australia’s biggest clean energy projects, more than a
million solar panels will power electrolysers to produce 50,000 tonnes of green
hydrogen a year.
The East Kimberley Clean Energy project will be unveiled at the Australian
renewable energy industry’s annual summit in Sydney on Tuesday.
A new company – Aboriginal Clean Energy – will develop the ambitious project
near the town of Kununurra. Three Indigenous groups will each have an initial
25% share in the company alongside climate crisis investment and advisory firm
Pollination.
The head of projects at Pollination, Rob Grant, said the company structure
engages traditional owners as true collaborators, developers and beneficiaries,
and represented a “just, ambitious and achievable vision” for clean energy
projects in Australia.
The feasibility and capital raising for the project is still to be completed,
but Grant said the partnership was hoping to start construction in late 2025,
with the first hydrogen produced by late 2028.
The project will look to use renewable energy from an existing hydroelectric
facility near the Ord River to turn all the green hydrogen into 250,000 tonnes
of green ammonia each year for agricultural fertilisers to be sold in Australia
and for export.
The plan includes a new 120km pipeline to store and transport green ammonia to
the “export ready” port of Wyndham."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
