Green hydrogen key part of process

• Published date: 02 December 2021
• Publication title: Southland Express

With a renewable energy source ready to be used after the planned closure of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter in 2024, there has been much attention on what can be done with it.

Establishing a green hydrogen facility is one of the projects being investigated by multiple groups.

Ngai Tahu ki Murihiku and Fortescue Future Industries was one.

Fortescue chairman and founder Dr Andrew Forrest explained it was a zero emissions, zero pollution production.

His views were outlined at a Murihiku Regeneration Science and Innovation Wanaga in Invercargill last week, via a pre-recorded message as he was at the COP26 (United Nations Climate Change Conference) in Glasgow, Scotland.

Dr Forrest spoke of work under way in Australia, which included green hydrogen and green ammonia projects.

It was an idea of conversion for decarbonisation: the company announced recently it would be the first to convert a ship to run almost entirely on green ammonia in a year.

Southland could be at the forefront of a great green energy industrial revolution, and that global revolution began locally, he said.

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