Queensland-based hydrogen developer Lion Energy has announced a $10 million partnership with Mitsubishi subsidiary DGA Energy Solutions Australia and Samsung C&T Corporation to help fund a project that could provide green hydrogen to the city’s bus fleet.
Lion already has a 20-year lease on a site at the Port of Brisbane where it hopes to produce the alternative fuel and refuel the city’s future bus fleet.
The “hub and spoke” project could create a blueprint for other refuelling facilities across eastern Australia, the proponents say.
The project includes a green hydrogen production and dispensing infrastructure at the port, with total production capacity of more than 300 tonnes per annum.
Mr Soulsby said there had been hydrogen offtake interest as the project matured into the joint development agreement.
He expected initial demand to be from bus operators and truck fleet managers and for hydrogen fuel cells to replace diesel generator sets at construction, mining and event sites.
DGA and Samsung will initially pay a total of $3.7 million to Lion for pre-construction costs and will procure debt financing totalling $6.3 million to start construction.
When up and running, Lion Energy will own half of the project and the partners a quarter each.
Lion said agreements were in place with key equipment providers, securing the supply of two electrolysers and a refuelling package.
The ASX-listed company is also expected to update the share market on offtake agreements by the end of September.
“A future made in Australia is a future made in Queensland, and this is direct evidence of that,” industry body Zero Carbon Hydrogen Australia spokeswoman Joanna Kay said.
“This puts Brisbane at the centre of a green hydrogen future,” she said.
https://www.metro-magazine.com/10202747/californias-get-fire-damages-hydrogen-bus-fueling-infrastructure
Yet another example of the use of a previously derided word, this time by the greenwashing industries, to con the gullible.
Everything’s gone Green.
Can’t wait for the rebranding of yellowcake.
I hope this is not a greenwashing exercise where they “initially” extract hydrogen from fossil methane with a view to using “green” hydrogen some time in the future!
It’s another ‘facepalm’ story 🙄
Lion Energy has announced a $10 million partnership with Mitsubishi subsidiary DGA Energy Solutions Australia and Samsung C&T Corporation to help fund a project that could provide green hydrogen to the city’s bus fleet.
I’d prefer it if only green energy is used. And the refilling station in the picture has a canopy.
Could provide hydrogen to the bus fleet if the council/state government are really silly. If you’ve got green electricity why not use it directly without the conversion losses – especially for out and back services like public transport.
Bring back trolley buses to Brisbane and all toll roads should have catenaries for trucks and buses with free electricity.
Another worthless and unnecessary project by fossil fuel troglodytes. Apologies to the very clever and innovative people of the Palaeolithic eras.
Another Dangerous Uncontrolled Experiment: Green hydrogen is going to be incredibly important, but not as a transport fuel. The leakage rate in anything other than secure pipeline structures is too leaky – it leaks through most materials.
The scientific community is very concerned, because we don’t know the ramifications of increasing the hydrogen concentration in the atmosphere any further than we already have in the last century – we have doubled it! We do know that it destroys ozone! We do know that it reacts with free radicals and turns them into water vapour. We know that water vapour is the MOST greenhouse dangerous gas (vapour), but is OK while it is confined to the lower atmosphere. No-one has done the science on what happens when we create a layer of water vapour in the outer atmosphere, (there is none there so far) but we do know that we narrowly dodged a bullet with destruction of the ozone layer by refrigerants. Do we want to risk another uncontrolled experiment?
Apart from this, the production, distribution and storage of hydrogen is the most inefficient fuel production process that exists – it loses at best, about75% of the energy used create it! Why do it when battery electric will do a better job, with only about 10% energy loss. Ammonia created from hydrogen to create is an incredibly valuable commodity for many uses, and ammonia can be used as a fuel for ships for example. It is probably the only safe way to transport hydrogen.
The japanese have backed hydrogen for years, and Toyota is now reaping the costs of their involvement. They have reduced the price of their hydrogen cars in California by 60% to get rid of them. Shell oil has stopped distributing hydrogen in California, and now there is a legal class action against Toyota by the owners of their hydrogen cars.
We need more money put into the research before we continue with any more of this absolute madness. Don’t believe the politicians, they are being fed bullshit by the money-hungry lobby groups!
research does not mean trials.
Yup, another hydrogen scam conning money out of the govt
Why say govt when you mean taxpayers?
The city’s bus fleet should be comprised of battery electric buses, not hydrogen fuel cell buses. BEVs kill HFCVs every time. Why would Brisbane even be considering HFC buses in the first place? We need an explanation for such madness.
Oh for goodness sake, SPARE me.
Hydrogen is a massive “con”.
More taxpayer dollars getting swallowed by con men.
EVERYWHERE around the world where this has been trialed has had the same outcome. FAILURE
It does NOT work for transport.
The effiency is appalling, the cost is appalling and yet we taxpayers keep paying for these scams.
Is someone in government getting bribes?
Yes, instead of using the available energy to directly charge cheaper, lower maintenance electric buses (85% efficient), lets add the infrastructure (electrolizer, compressor, storage, transport, expensive fuel cell vehicles…. oh and consume valuable clean water), to finish up with a third of the energy you started with, to drive the wheels… Give me strength…