Premium Content
Subscriber only Following last week s explosion at the Callide Power Station which heavily affected large portions of the state, the local MP has issued an ultimatum. Colin Boyce MP said the State government had two clear options in the wake of the incident - replace the crippled C4 generator and turbine or do nothing. I believe that the Callide C4 generator and turbine are now scrap metal, Mr Boyce said. The damage in the explosion has caused a write-off and there is no rebuilding it. I have been informed that this devastation is the result of a hydrogen explosion inside the generator which has led to the destruction of the generator and the turbine shaft in C4.
Premium Content
Subscriber only Three generating units at Callide Power Station are now expected to be operational later than initially determined. CS Energy provided the Australian Energy Market Operator the revised return to service dates for Unit B1 and B2 - June 11 and June 21 respectively. Callide Power Trading, which trades the output of Callide C on behalf of the joint venture between CS Energy and InterGen, told the AEMO that Unit C3 would return to service on June 22. All three generators were earlier supposed to be operational by June 8 after an explosion and fire at the station last week. No change was made to the forecast return date for C4 of 12 months time.
The Morrison Government will handsomely win the next election because Australia s fiscal and health response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been as good as anywhere in the world. People vote for the political party that best lines their pockets. The rest is background noise, engineered by the Canberra bubble. Voters can t even say debt, let alone use it as an excuse to not vote for a political party. The Coalition has played Labor at its own game, promising the world and putting future generations into hock for years. But who cares? it s only money. The Coalition also has the three best retail politicians in the country - Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg and Peter Dutton. On the other hand, Labor struggles with genuine performers. Australians will never flirt with a leader from Labor s left like Anthony Albanese. The left have abandoned workers to pursue ideological fantasy. As Margaret Thatcher often said, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
[co-authors: Lilly May, Michael Kralic]
There have been a number of policy and funding developments applicable to the hydrogen energy industry in Australia since the release of K&L Gates
The H
2 Handbook in October last year. These developments have come at both commonwealth and state level and highlight the current governmental appetite to foster the emerging Australian hydrogen industry and to position Australia as a global hydrogen leader.
This article reflects on the state of play across Australia, providing a high level consolidated overview of these updates and supplementing the Australian chapter of
The H
Australian Policy Updates
New South Wales