Western Sydney Green Gas Project

The Western Sydney Green Gas Project will help bring clean, green and renewable energy to Australian businesses and homes. It will accelerate Australia’s hydrogen vehicle industry. It will use existing infrastructure to make renewable technology cheaper, faster, and more reliable.

Hydrogen is the most common chemical in the universe. It can be produced as a gas or liquid, or made part of other materials, and has many uses such as fuel for transport or heating, a way to store electricity, or a raw material in industrial processes.

Hydrogen has zero carbon emissions. Just like natural gas, hydrogen can be safely transported through existing infrastructure, like pipelines. It can be converted back to electricity or support the existing or international hydrogen market.

Jemena‘s Western Sydney Green Gas Project will convert renewably sourced electricity into hydrogen via electrolysis. A portion of the hydrogen produced will be injected into the gas network, providing enough energy to meet the cooking, heating and hot-water requirements of approximately 250 homes. Another portion of the hydrogen will be stored underground supplying a gas engine generator which will provide electricity back to the grid. The project is also considering an onsite Hydrogen Refuelling Station (HRS) for Fuel Cell Electric Buses.

Through a process called ‘power to gas,’ renewable energy will be converted into hydrogen using an electrolyser – the first of its kind in New South Wales. The electrolyser will use power generated by wind and solar to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is released into the atmosphere; the hydrogen will be stored as renewable energy for weeks and months, making it more efficient than batteries which can only store excess renewable energy for minutes or hours.

Jemena is currently in the development phase of this project. Jemena expects the Project to be operational in late 2020.

The Project will take place at Jemena’s existing Horsley Park site, in western Sydney.

Jemena aims to demonstrate that our gas network is ready to deliver clean, safe and sustainable green gas to customers. In doing so, Jemena is supporting the decarbonisation of Australia’s energy market by demonstrating a long term storage solution for renewable energy for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.

You can view more information the project here: https://jemena.com.au/about/innovation/ power-to-gas-trial

You can get in touch with our team in these ways:

Call our Community Feedback Line on 1300 081 989

Email our team danielm@ecoaus. com.au

Visit our website at www.jemena. com.au

You can view ARENA’s work at its

website: https://arena.gov.au/