Plug wins 50MW electrolyzer order as Orica’s Hunter Valley Hub becomes the largest Australian renewable hydrogen project to reach FID
In New York, Plug Power announced that the 50-megawatt (MW) Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub (HVHH) project in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, has reached final investment decision (FID), moving the project into execution and advancing the delivery of Plug’s GenEco Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers.
The Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub is being developed by Orica.
Located adjacent to Orica’s existing ammonia manufacturing facility on Kooragang Island, the Hunter Valley project will use renewable electricity to produce renewable hydrogen via electrolysis, progressively replacing natural gas in the company’s production of low-carbon ammonia and ammonium nitrate.
Plug said that the HVHH is the largest green hydrogen project in Australia to reach FID, and the first among the recipients of Australia’s Hydrogen Headstart program.
At full capacity, the facility is expected to produce approximately 4,700 tons of renewable hydrogen per year, displacing around 7.5% of Orica’s natural gas consumption at Kooragang Island, the equivalent of removing approximately 26,500 cars from Australian roads annually, Plug added.
Category: Hydrogen
