Photo / RNZBy Phil Pennington of RNZThe government has been told Southland could start producing green hydrogen as early as 2023. Various companies are exploring green hydrogen, which could generate jobs and soak up electricity production left excess if Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter shuts in 2024. Emails released under the OIA show the giant Australian mining company, Fortescue, began wooing the Government over hydrogen more than a year ago. Woods' office said, in an email last October, that Fortescue "are quite advanced with plans for Tiwai for hydrogen". Hydrogen produced by renewable electricity is known as green hydrogen, which remains mostly an experimental technology with uncertain markets.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 01, 2021 04:52 UTC