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Completed sea trial of the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd (KHI) conducted a successful world-first sea trial of the liquefied hydrogen carrier SUISO FRONTIER between the 14th and 15th of October. KHI has been making steady progress to hand the vessel over to the CO2-free Hydrogen Energy...
Webinar: How the Latrobe Valley can play a role in Australia’s hydrogen future
Australia’s emerging hydrogen industry is already showing promising signs of success and the Latrobe Valley is at the heart of this, thanks to the HESC Pilot Project. Join this webinar to learn about the HESC Project’s progress since being launched in 2018 and...
Global status of CCS
Image Credit: Global CCS Institute Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of five priority low emissions technologies in the Australian Government’s First Low Emissions Technology Statement, because its widespread deployment will underpin new low emissions industries...
Federation University researchers support HESC Pilot
Caption: Federation University, Image Credit Shishka Study Abroad Federation University, in partnership with Australian Carbon Innovation, will analyse hydrogen production quality and performance of the gasification and refining plant in the Latrobe Valley as part of...
HESC playing part in shaping a hydrogen certification scheme
Australia is taking the lead in developing a Certificate of Origin for clean hydrogen and the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project is contributing to shaping these standards. The scheme will cover emissions released in the atmosphere as a result of the hydrogen...
Commissioning is underway at all project sites
The completed Latrobe Valley site Each element in the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Pilot supply chain is nearing operations stage. Site teams in Japan and Australia are working to finalise construction and carry out the all-important commissioning work, to...
Japanese hydrogen liquefaction expert comes to Hastings
Mr Hiroi at the HESC Project site in Hastings in September 2020 Shinichi Hiroi has only recently arrived in Australia but is looking forward to applying his technical expertise to the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project and is already enjoying life in...
Technology Investment Roadmap plots a course
HESC Project Partners welcome the Federal Government’s first Low Emissions Technology Statement released on the 22nd of September, and its endorsement of clean hydrogen as the fuel of the future. Image credit: Industry.gov.au As part of the Australian Government’s...
CarbonNet core gets hi-tech treatment
CarbonNet core in the CT scanner The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project, alongside the CarbonNet Project, has the potential to assist in Victoria’s energy transition and the decarbonisation of the state’s industry and manufacturing base. Currently, the...
Construction presses on despite COVID-19 challenges
Construction of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project’s Hastings site, where hydrogen will be liquefied, stored, and loaded onto a ship for export, has been completed. At the Latrobe Valley coal gasification and refining facility, the end of construction is...
A close look at the world`s first liquid hydrogen carrier
SUISO FRONTIER at Kobe terminal in Japan Mass quantities of liquefied hydrogen have not been shipped across open waters before, but the newly built SUISO FRONTIER overcomes the challenges of transportation. The ship will play a key role in realising the HESC Project’s...
“Everyone on this project is working hard for the future of our planet.”
Ross Renna (left) and Hirofumi Kawazoe (right) at the HESC Project site in Hastings Hirofumi Kawazoe is the General Manager for Hydrogen Engineering Australia (HEA) and the local representative for Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI). Between visits to the Port of...
Latrobe Valley locals learn the ropes at HESC gasification site
Jay Murphy (left) and Ashley Withell at the HESC Project’s Latrobe Valley site Jay Murphy, Electrical Apprentice, and Ashley Withell, Trade Assistant, are junior tradespeople employed to work on the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project. They are among some 150...
Construction milestone achieved in Hastings
The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project has achieved another significant milestone. The Hastings site of the Hydrogen Liquefaction and Loading Terminal has been built. It is Australia’s first hydrogen liquefaction facility. 59 engineers, tradespeople and...
Construction complete at HESC’s Kobe hydrogen terminal
The HESC Project has achieved another major milestone with the completion of construction of its Kobe-based liquefied hydrogen storage and unloading terminal. The terminal is a key component of the HESC pilot end-to-end supply chain. The world’s first liquefied...
Update on Latrobe Valley Construction Schedule
Completion of construction of the HESC Latrobe Valley plant site has been pushed out from June until August 2020. COVID-19 has caused significant and unprecedented disruption across many industries and supply chains worldwide. This has resulted in a delay to the...
HESC Project achieves another significant milestone with the successful installation of the Liquefied Hydrogen Storage Tank on the SUISO FRONTIER
Kawasaki Heavy Industries achieves another significant project milestone for the HESC project with the successful installation of the Liquefied Hydrogen (LH2) storage tank on the SUISO FRONTIER.
Role of HESC reconfirmed in Japan and Australia’s joint hydrogen statement
Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Mr Hiroshi Kajiyama and Senator, the Hon. Matthew Canavan, Australia’s Federal Minister for Resources signed a Joint Statement of Co-operation on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells at the Australia-Japan Ministerial Economic...
HESC Project achieves another major milestone with the launch of the world’s first hydrogen carrier
Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project partners congratulate fellow partner, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI) in achieving a major project milestone today, launching the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, SUISO FRONTIER at its Kobe works site in...
National Hydrogen Strategy boosts Australia’s clean energy future
The HESC Project Partners welcome the approval of Australia’s National Hydrogen Strategy by Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Energy Council Ministers.
HESC in the Latrobe Valley
Laying the foundations for Victoria’s hydrogen industry
Project announcement
HESC welcomes Sumitomo Corporation as a Project Partner
Thank you for attending our Community Information Sessions
Thank you for attending the Community Information Sessions
HESC submits submissions to the COAG Energy Council Hydrogen Working Group
HESC Project Partners recently filed their submissions to the COAG Energy Council Working Group to help develop a National Hyrdrogen Strategy (NHS).
Community drop-in sessions – August 2019
The HESC project team is holding community drop-in sessions in Hastings, Traralgon and Morwell in August 2019.
HESC breaks new ground for an Australian hydrogen future
A sod turn ceremony was held at the Port of Hastings on 19 July 2019
HESC features at inaugural Australian Hydrogen Energy Summit
The HESC Project was in the spotlight at the Inaugural Australian Hydrogen Energy Summit held in Melbourne on 26/27 March 2019. Touted as a world-first project of international significance for the establishment of an end-to-end hydrogen supply chain between Australia...
National hydrogen strategy open for public consultation
On the 1st of March 2019 in a joint release between the Minister for Energy, the Hon Angus Taylor MP and the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, the Hon Matt Canavan announced public input to inform the development of a new clean hydrogen industry. Public...
EPA approval granted for HESC in Latrobe Valley
February 2019: The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project Partners are pleased to announce that the Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has approved an application from J-Power Latrobe Valley Pty Ltd (wholly subsidiary company of J-POWER) for a...
January Update
January 2019: 2019 is shaping up to be an important year for the clean energy revolution, with Australia moving one-step closer to becoming a world leader in hydrogen technology and export. After months of planning and work behind the scenes, the Hydrogen Energy...
A shared pledge to hydrogen future
22 January 2019: Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has announced a $1 billion pledge for the development of an Australian hydrogen industry, identifying the resource as an “emerging and exciting source of energy across the world” and the potential for Australia to be at...
Hydrogen consortium welcomes major step forward to further Australia’s low emissions hydrogen industry future
20 December 2018: Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO, has released his proposal for a national hydrogen strategy, at the COAG Energy Council meeting in Adelaide. At its meeting on 19 December 2018, the Energy Council agreed to establish a dedicated Working...
J-Power presents at Latrobe Valley Hydrogen Briefing Session
November 2018: Latrobe City Council partnered with Victoria’s Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (DEDJTR) to host a series of briefing sessions on 8 November 2018. The briefings focused on hydrogen production and the Latrobe Valley’s...
Australia set to lead the world on hydrogen production
NOVEMBER 2018: Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator the Hon. Matthew Canavan, has released a statement emphasising the findings of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) report, highlighting that Australia is in a position to take a world-leading role in the...
HESC collaboration commended by Prime Ministers
November 2018: The highest level of government from Japan and Australia, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Scott Morrison, have again recognised the ongoing collaboration between the two nations on the world first Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC)...
Hastings Planning Scheme Amendment confirmed
November 2018: Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) Project Partners are pleased to confirm that approval has been granted for a planning scheme amendment to the Mornington Peninsula Planning Scheme under the Planning and Environment Act 1987. This amendment to the...
Kawasaki sponsors GHGT14 Conference in Melbourne
OCTOBER 2018: The Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT) conference is the principal international conference on greenhouse mitigation technologies. It is held every two years in member countries and has become a focal point for international research in carbon...
Kawasaki Global Chairman visits Speaker of the House of Representatives
On 16 October 2018, Mr Shigeru Murayama, Chairman of the Board of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), visited Parliament House in Canberra to meet with the Hon Tony Smith MP, Speaker of the House of the Representatives. The meeting followed the Speaker’s visit to...
Consortium welcomes Australia’s Chief Scientist hydrogen study tour to Japanese project sites
SEPTEMBER 2018: THE INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM leading the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project, a world-first hydrogen energy production pilot project, has welcomed a recent study tour by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO. Following his release of the...
A message from Dr Eiichi Harada, Managing Director, Hydrogen Engineering Australia
Issue: 1 Date: November 2018 On behalf of Hydrogen Engineering Australia (HEA), and our Project Partners, Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), J-Power, J-Power Latrobe Valley (JPLV), Iwatani, Marubeni and AGL, we are honoured and grateful to have established a meaningful...