Overview of hydrogen economy in Australia

Abstract

The hydrogen economy is on the verge of expansion across the globe. Leading economies like Japan, South Korea, China, the United States of America, Germany, and Australia are steadily pushing for greater hydrogen integration into their energy systems. Australia's thrust on the hydrogen economy becomes prominent with clear strategic actions to enhance clean technology‐based hydrogen production. The paper critically analyses Australia's strategies and policies to expand its hydrogen economy. The paper found that Australia fixed ambitious targets to increase hydrogen penetration in the domestic market and export to Japan, China, and South Korea. Australia's national hydrogen strategy emphasized creating a strong hydrogen value chain to capitalize on abundant renewable resources. This article affirms that Australia has enormous potential for cost‐competitive green hydrogen production and export. Australia's cost‐competitive green hydrogen production with modern supply chain infrastructure will offer competitive advantages over the other exporters. States/regions are trying to align their hydrogen policies and strategies along the lines of the national strategy. However, some concerns demand timely attention from the stakeholders. Australia should address multiple challenges, including a lack of investment, lower public awareness, and insufficient infrastructure to push hydrogen adoption in the domestic market. Further, Australia must utilize its strengths to take advantage of the emerging hydrogen markets in Japan, China, and South Korea. This article is categorized under: Sustainable Energy > Other Renewables Emerging Technologies > Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Policy and Economics > Regional and International Strategies

Socio-technical barriers to domestic hydrogen futures: Repurposing pipelines, policies, and public perceptions

“…8 Employing snowballing techniques (see Section 3.2) led to the retrieval of five additional studies. 9 The final sample size (n = 44) is comparable to recent review papers on the hydrogen economy, such as Kar et al [73] (n = 53), Emodi et al [74] (n = 43), and Scovell [75] (n = 27).…”

“…By accounting for the wider aspects of the techno-economic dimension, policymakers yet to launch their national hydrogen strategies can (re-)evaluate their country's respective potential for developing a hydrogen economy, and what configuration (sectors and scale) and color (blue, green, or other) this may entail. Other key players shaping the prospective global hydrogen economyincluding frontrunner countries that otherwise dwarf the UK such as Australia and Canadacan likewise benefit from adopting a multi-level and whole-systems approach when assessing the viability of hydrogen for domestic decarbonization and other uses across different regions [73,367], which may include industrial clusters, urban areas, and offgrid locations.…”

Hidrógeno verde: abriendo las puertas a un futuro energético sostenible en el Perú

“…Asimismo, en oriente, Japón, con su enfoque en la reducción de la dependencia de los combustibles fósiles y la seguridad energética, ha impulsado inversiones significativas en tecnologías de hidrógeno verde, implementando proyectos de producción de hidrógeno a partir de energía solar y eólica. A esto se le suman países como Australia, Turquía y Portugal, que se encuentran en vías y proyección de uso (Bairrão et al, 2023;Kar et al, 2023).…”

Policy Implementation Roadmap, Diverse Perspectives, Challenges, Solutions Towards Low-Carbon Hydrogen Economy

“…Large-scale hydrogen storage is one of the biggest obstacles to a future hydrogen economy. The expense of adopting alternate liquid storage methods is frequently more than the cost of creating hydrogen in the first place, and low-cost, large-scale possibilities like salt caverns are geographically constrained (Kar et al, 2023).…”

“…Low-carbon hydrogen, if not the final energy transition tool, requires heavy research and development to industrialise and commercialise it. As discussed earlier, Policymaking, implementation and legislative acceptance are international, at national and state levels (Khan & Al-Ghamdi, 2023;Kar et al, 2023) . One of the first policies implemented in the earliest initiations of policies was in 1999 in Denmark, which was based on the hydrogen energy carriers.…”