Hydrogen Production in Australia
This article was originally featured in the September 2022 issue of POWER Magazine.
An Australia-based company is designing a project that combines multiple power generation technologies into a system that not only creates electricity but also can result in production of hydrogen. Sunshine Hydro recently announced plans for its first Superhybrid installation, in Central Queensland (CQ), a project it calls the Flavian Superhybrid. The company’s system, according to Sunshine Hydro, “combines multiple technologies that are not normally connected. Sunshine Hydro’s typical Superhybrid model includes wind and solar farms feeding into a pumped hydro project which is linked to a hydrogen generation plant. All components are orchestrated to work smoothly together using our AESOP, or Advanced Energy Storage Optimizing Program, control system.” Sunshine Hydro said AESOP “enables engineers to accurately model and optimize hybrid renewable energy storage projects.”
Managing Director and energy expert, Julie McLaughlin, commented, "Climate targets and destabilization of gas markets in Europe are driving a development boom in green hydrogen. The ability to convert renewable power into hydrogen has the potential to further decarbonize the electric grid while providing clean fuel for transportation..."
