08:00
Registration and welcome coffee
08:50
Opening remarks from the chair
Christine Kininmonth
Journalist & Presenter
09:00
Industry perspective: Best practice policy drivers to fast track Australia’s hydrogen future
- Do we have the right policies in place to transition to renewables?
- Developing an effective policy framework to support the growth and development of green hydrogen in large scale industry
Robert Grant
Director Energy
Fortescue Metals Group
Overcoming infrastructure issues
09:25
Smoothing the transition to hydrogen when converting existing industrial infrastructure (Live video presentation)
ENAEX and ENGIE have recently signed a strategic partnership to design, construct and operate of a green ammonia production complex in Mejillones, Northern Chile.
- Integrating new technologies into an existing industrial site
- Ensuring projects are scalable to secure cost competitiveness with traditional fossil fuels
Nils Grobet
Business Developer - Green Hydrogen
Engie (Chile)
09:50
Converting existing energy production infrastructure to adapt it to hydrogen
- Setting up and managing feasibility studies to assess viability
- Finding the right location for industrial-scale renewable hydrogen
- Converting legacy infrastructure or buying/building from scratch
Lily Habib
Director of Projects
Pacific Hydro Australia
10:15
Leveraging existing hydropower capacity to build hydrogen production at scale
- Achieving economic production of green hydrogen by
o building on existing renewable generation and other infrastructure
o using high capacity factor renewable energy
- Scaling up production of hydrogen using the unique attributes of the hydro system
- Understanding the implications of guarantee of origin
Tony Field
Tasmanian Opportunities Manager
Hydro Tasmania
10:40
Morning tea
11:10
CASE STUDY: How Nikola is solving the hydrogen infrastructure / chicken and egg problem in the USA (Live video presentation)
Nikola’s business model relies on also opening hydrogen fuelling stations across the USA to make using hydrogen trucks feasible. Nikola forecasts it will have 700 stations open by 2028.
- Rolling out fleets of fuel cell trucks with a dedicated hydrogen station network ("The Omelette")
- Bringing the infrastructure with the truck – the technology of hydrogen fuelling
- Standardising hydrogen fuelling worldwide optimism
Jesse Schneider
Executive Vice President, Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Technologies
Nikola Motor Company (USA)
11:35
Circumventing the issue of hydrogen storage in green power generation
H2Store’s solid state hydrogen technology will be the first hydrogen battery in NSW, and a first in the world in terms of scale, with an energy density of 17MWh.
- Integrating compact storage into renewable power generation
- Overcoming infrastructure, safety and liquefaction costs
- Taking advantage of scale-able and transportable hydrogen to increase continuity of supply
- Testing the feasibility of hydrogen storage at scale
Llewellyn Owens
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
H2Store
Defining who is going to buy hydrogen
12:00
Preliminary findings from South Australia’s Hydrogen Export Study
South Australia is undertaking a pre-feasibility study into large-scale clean hydrogen production for international export to prospective markets in Asia, answering key questions such as:
- What are the optimal locations in South Australia for hydrogen production and export?
- What is the volume of supply potential?
- What the landed cost of clean hydrogen exported from South Australia?
Richard Day
Director Low Carbon Industry Development
South Australian Department for Energy and Mining
12:25
Networking lunch
13:25
CASE STUDY: Lessons from the world’s first international supply chain, transporting hydrogen from Brunei to Japan
The Advanced Hydrogen Energy Chain Association for Technology Development (AHEAD) consortium is projected to ship total of 210 metric tonnes of hydrogen between January and December 2020.
- Overcoming the challenges of storing and moving hydrogen
- Logistics of large-scale hydrogen production for export using liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology
- Applying export technologies to the Australian market
Andrew Tan
President & Chief Executive Officer Australia
Chiyoda Corporation
13:50
PANEL DISCUSSION: Who will the Australian hydrogen buyers be?
- Which industries will move into hydrogen first and what will drive this change?
- How low do prices have to be for hydrogen to be attractive and what subsidies or incentives will support hydrogen use?
- How can organisations capitalise on the advantages of early adoption of hydrogen energy?
Moderator:
Christine Kininmonth
Journalist & Presenter
Panellists:
Luke Blackbourn
Manager Government & External Relations
Yara International
Tony Field
Tasmanian Opportunities Manager
Hydro Tasmania
Sam Lee Mohan
Manager Innovation Projects
ATCO
14:35
Working with stakeholders to accelerate the construction of industrial scale hydrogen for multiple end-users/purchasers (live video presentation)
- Conceiving a commercial project that matches investor’s interests and government policy
- Partnering with end-users to share skills, resources and knowledge
- Aligning the development of hydrogen production with the needs and infrastructure of off takers
Andrew Clennett
Chief Executive Officer
Hiringa Energy
15:00
Afternoon tea
15:30
Kickstarting the local hydrogen economy: strategies for increasing the use of hydrogen
The QHydrogen distributed renewable hydrogen hub will tap demand from the Port of Brisbane and Brisbane Airport.
- Pricing equivalent to diesel with integration into existing fuel distribution networks
- Active global collaboration to deliver cost effective Fuel Cell Electric equipment in Australia
Derek Thomas
Chairman
WindandSea Research
Beyond hydrogen - Capitalising on the capabilities of renewable gases in a low-emission world
15:55
Using hydrogen to create renewable methane as the next major fuel for domestic and industrial applications
- Evaluating the advantages of catalytic methane over hydrogen
- Smoothing infrastructure issues – how easily could existing pipelines and gas generators convert to methane?
- Learning from the results of integrated production pilot projects
- Creating efficiencies in process integration to make methane commercially feasible
Jim Snow
Adjunct Professor
University of Queensland Energy Initiative
16:20
Commercialising solid oxide electrolysis (SOE) technology to produce cost-effective green hydrogen
- State of the art SOE and making this technology robust and reliable
- Using SOE transient power management schemes to convert renewables to hydrogen and fuels
- Integrating SOE to downstream: liquefied hydrogen and hydrogen carrier production
Aniruddha (Ani) Kulkarni
Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO Australia
16:45
Closing remarks from the chair
16:50
End of Australian Hydrogen Forum