Perth-based Infinite Green Energy (IGE) is pressing ahead with what it states might end up being Australia’s very first commercial-scale sustainable hydrogen production center after it finished the buyout of the 11 MW Northam Solar Farm and signed its very first offtake agreement today.

The conclusion of the Northam offer will permit IGE to take advantage of the output of the solar farm to power the business’s green hydrogen MEG HP1 job which is to be established at the solar farm website, about 100 kilometres east of Perth in Western Australia’s (WA) Wheatbelt area.

When completely functional, the center is anticipated to produce approximately 4 tonnes of green hydrogen daily. IGE stated the scope exists to broaden the solar center to 18 MW, possibly doubling the website’s production capability to 8 tonnes of green hydrogen daily.

IGE is targeting the domestic heavy transportation market for offtake from the job with the very first binding supply arrangement signed previously today with a WA waste to energy haven collection business.

The business stated it has actually now begun a $3 million capital raise to advance the MEG HP1 job. It has actually supposedly likewise made an application for $5 million in funds from the WA Financial Investment Tourist Attraction Fund.

IGE stated the capital raising will permit it to advance the Northam job to last financial investment choice.

IGE creator and President Stephen Gauld stated the solar farm would right away produce returns through an existing power purchase arrangement (PPA), and he anticipated more green hydrogen offtake contracts.

” With the security of a PPA in location, our clear course to preliminary production in 2024 will show the plant and assistance to start a market for green hydrogen in the industrial movement sector in Western Australia,” he stated. “We have our very first contracted client, and 6 MOUs from other transportation business in Western Australia.”

The MEG HP1 is the most sophisticated of IGE’s tasks with the business likewise advancing the Arrowsmith Hydrogen Task, which it states will produce approximately 25 tonnes of green hydrogen daily.

IGE initially revealed prepare for the Arrowsmith Hydrogen Task in 2020. To be established near the town of Dongara, about 320km north of Perth, the very first phase of the job woild integrate 65 MW of solar and 90 MW of wind to produce 25 tonnes of green hydrogen a day.