Hiringa Energy and Sundown Pastoral have been awarded AUD$35.8 million ($23.6 million) from the New South Wales government (state on the east coast of Australia) to support a ‘green hydrogen’ and ammonia facility designed to slash carbon emissions from fuel and fertilizer at Sundown’s cotton farm near Moree.
The Good Earth Green Hydrogen and Ammonia (GEGHA) project combines renewable energy production, hydrogen production from water rather than fossil fuels, and ammonia production.
The plan is to install a 27-MW solar farm producing roughly 45,000-MWh of energy per year to power an electrolysis process whereby rainwater collected on the farm will be split into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen will then be used for on-site ammonia production and to power hydrogen fuel cells (rather than diesel) that pump irrigation water throughout the farm.
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