Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (“Kawasaki”) is committed to the realisation of a commercial scale project to produce clean liquefied hydrogen and transport it to Japan. As part of the development process, Japan Suiso Energy (JSE) was awarded funding from the…
From left to right: Kento Koga, Masahiro Toki, Aki Martland, Wayne Thorpe, Hiroshi Kuwata, Jeremy Stone, Yuki Nishiiri On February 1, key project members from the JPSC JV travelled from Tokyo, Japan to East Gippsland, Victoria to participate in cultural…
HESC was well represented at a recent Australian Hydrogen Council meeting by senior executives from Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), J-POWER, and Sumitomo Corporation. KHI Chairman Yoshinori Kanehana, who is also co-chair of the Hydrogen Council, spoke at the breakfast held…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) hosted the Mayors of Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, Latrobe City Council, and the Japanese City of Kawasaki at the HESC Pilot Project site in Hastings. This was followed by J-Power and Sumitomo Corporation Joint Venture (JPSC…
The Suiso Frontier returned to Australia as part of the 60th annual joint Australia-Japan business conference held in Melbourne. This gave conference attendees the rare opportunity to tour the world’s first liquid hydrogen carrier. Over duration of the conference, several…
The HESC Project commissioned KPMG to conduct modelling on the potential economic and employment impacts of a commercial-scale project, looking at two phases – investment and operation. KPMG used CGE modelling, an analytical approach for assessing the impacts of major…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd (KHI), Iwatani Corporation (Iwatani) and INPEX Corporation (INPEX) announced the completion of a shareholder agreement for INPEX to acquire shares in Japan Suiso Energy, Ltd. (JSE), a joint venture currently between KHI and Iwatani. As decarbonisation…
Jeremy Stone, non-executive Director of J-POWER Latrobe Valley, presented the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project to an audience of government and industry stakeholders at the New Gippsland Energy conference on 31 August in Sale. He spoke about the success…
Senior executives from the J-Power and Sumitomo Corporation Joint Venture (JPSC JV) attended the recent Gippsland Hydrogen Roadmap Launch at Morwell’s Innovation Centre. The launch was hosted by Latrobe City Mayor Kellie O’Callaghan and included presentations from Former Chief Scientist…
On September 12, major shipping companies Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) joined JSE Ocean, a subsidiary of Japan Suiso Energy, Ltd. to establish the commercial-scale marine transport of…
On 4 August, J-Power hosted Mr Boonyanit Wongrukmit, Governor of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), and his delegation at the HESC Pilot Project’s hydrogen gasification facility in Latrobe Valley. This visit comes as EGAT, responsible for power system…
On 12 July 2023, Net Zero Australia published How to make net zero happen, Mobilisation report building upon six modelled scenarios where Australia achieves net zero by 2050. The report’s message is clear: the scale of Australia’s decarbonisation challenge is…