Green focus for State hydrogen plan
The State Government has released a refreshed Renewable Hydrogen Strategy for WA,
focusing on producing green products and value-adding to the State's resources.
A locally based renewable hydrogen industry has the potential to add billions to the
WA economy as well as thousands of additional jobs per year.
The WA Renewable Hydrogen Strategy 2024-2030 focuses on:
- Investing in infrastructure and activating hubs.
- Speeding up approvals and enhancing social licence.
- Supporting strategic green ammonia and green metals projects.
Since 2017 the State Government has allocated more than $5.4 billion to support the energy transition, including new generation, transmission and storage across WA's major electricity networks - the South West Interconnected System and North West Interconnected System.
Premier Roger Cook said the State Government was committed to producing renewable hydrogen at scale.
“The hydrogen landscape has changed significantly over the past five years with advancements in technology and new national and international policy settings,”
the Premier said.
“Our refreshed strategy reflects the new landscape, with a major focus on using renewable hydrogen to produce the green materials the world needs to
transition to net zero - like green ammonia and green iron.
“We're delivering on what industry needs to make renewable hydrogen a reality - slashing red tape and streamlining approvals and investing to unlock
our strategic industrial areas."
The strategy focuses on renewable hydrogen, “where Western Australia will ultimately have the strongest advantage”.
“However, it recognises the fast pace of technology change and that there may be new developments in low emissions hydrogen production and
extraction of natural hydrogen.
“Renewable hydrogen can enable Western Australia to harness new economic opportunities to decarbonise the production of ammonia and has the
potential to support local production of green iron, green alumina and other value-added critical mineral products.”
The full strategy is available here.