AGIG starts supplying hydrogen-blended gas to Adelaide
Australian Gas Networks (AGN), part of Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG), has officially opened its A$14.5mn ($11.2mn) Hydrogen Park South Australia (HyP SA) green hydrogen plant and started adding the fuel into the Adelaide natural gas network, AGIG said on May 19.
AGN will provide a blend of 95% natural gas, 5% hydrogen to more than 700 homes in parts of the Adelaide suburb of Mitchell Park. AGN received a A$4.9mn grant from the South Australian government’s Renewable Technology Fund to build and operate the plant.
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"HyP SA is an Australian first and one of only a few projects in the world to deliver a renewable gas blend to homes connected to an existing gas network," AGIG CEO Ben Wilson said. "The hydrogen produced at HyP SA shows how we can use the state’s abundant solar and wind resources to deliver carbon-free gas to homes and businesses.”
The HyP SA facility, which converts water into hydrogen using wind and solar power, also includes tube trailer refilling infrastructure to supply hydrogen to industry across South Australia via road transport with project partner BOC, a subsidiary of Linde.
HyP SA is capable of producing approximately 175 metric tons/year of hydrogen. AGIG has announced plans for a similar plant in Gladstone, Queensland, and is developing detailed plans to blend between 10% and 100% hydrogen into gas networks in both South Australia and Victoria through the Australian Hydrogen Centre. It is assessing how hydrogen can be introduced into the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas transmission pipeline in Western Australia.
Additionally, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency recently awarded two AGIG projects funding as part of the Renewable Hydrogen Deployment Funding Round. Hydrogen Park Murray Valley in Wodonga, Victoria and the Clean Energy Innovation Park in Warradarge, Western Australia are both 10 MW projects that will look to blend into gas distribution networks.