Japan Offers $1.6 Billion to Australia’s Coal-to-Hydrogen Plan
- Partners aim to produce clean fuel for export from late 2020s
- Project will use carbon capture in process to create gas
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Japan’s government will offer 220 billion yen ($1.6 billion) from a green innovation fund to accelerate efforts in Australia to produce hydrogen for export from coal and biomass.
Partners including J-Power Latrobe Valley, a unit of Japan-based Electric Power Development Co. and Sumitomo Corp. have carried out trials including the delivery last year of the first ever liquid hydrogen shipment from southeast Australia to Kobe.