Green Hydrogen Energy Production and Storage for Distributed Energy Systems

October 30th, 2023

R&D Focus Areas:
Electrolysis, Electricity

Lead Organisation:
Endua

Partners:
CSIRO, Main Sequence Venture, Ampol, QIC, Melt Ventures, 77 Partners

Status:
Active

Start date:
June 2021 (announcement of Endua start-up)

Completion date:
Ongoing

Key contacts:
Endua – Contact — Endua – Clean Hydrogen Power

Funding:
Ampol and Main Sequence/CSIRO (start-up funding), CRC-P, Accelerating Commercialisation Fund, Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, Pre-series private funding (June 2023 media releases)

Project total cost:
AUD$5 million: Ampol and Main Sequence/CSIRO
AUD$2,366,317: CRC – P
AUD$2,281,126 (Federal + industry cash + in-kind contributions)
AUD$998,269 (Accelerating Commercialisation Fund
AUD$7.5 million Pre-series private funding

Above total: AUD$18,145,712 (cash + in-kind contributions)

Project summary description:
The aim of this project is to manufacture clean power generation and storage in a modular power bank that can drive power loads of up to 100kW in a single pack. Each power bank is a fully integrated system that generates, stores and consumes hydrogen on-site. The modular power banks are approximately six metres long and three metres wide. The modularity concept can allow for scaling depending on on-site requitements.

The company will use electrolyser technology developed at CSIRO in its system. The goal of the project is to store clean energy in large amounts, enabling off-grid infrastructure and lower cost renewables-based power options to regional/remote communities and microgrid solutions, including in agricultural, mining and telecommunications uses.

Higher degree studies supported:
Not applicable.

October 2023