The plans sounded ambitious but promising: an international consortium consisting of InterContinental Energy, CWP Energy and Macquarie was planning a large-scale project for the production of green hydrogen from renewable energies in Australia under the name 'Asian Renewable Energy Hub'. But now the government has withdrawn support from the project.
26,000 MW of wind and solar power was to be generated in Western Australia, 3,000 MW of which was destined for large energy consumers in the Pilbara region, including mines and downstream mineral processing. But the bulk of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub's energy was earmarked for large-scale green hydrogen production, both for Australia itself and overseas. Japan and Korea in particular had signalled interest in ...