BlueScope announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shell Energy Operations Pty. (Shell) to work together to explore and develop renewable hydrogen projects at BlueScope’s Port Kembla Steelworks in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.
The collaboration encompasses two projects. The first project will pilot a renewable hydrogen electrolyzer plant at the Port Kembla Steelworks. This initial project will investigate designing, building and operating a pilot-scale 10-megawatt renewable hydrogen electrolyzer to explore and test the use of green hydrogen in the blast furnace at BlueScope’s Port Kembla Steelworks. The ambition is to demonstrate hydrogen as a pathway toward low-emissions steelmaking. The hydrogen could also potentially be used for other purposes, such as to feed a pilot direct-reduced-iron (DRI) plant.
The second project is the Illawarra “hydrogen hub” concept. The MoU also provides for BlueScope and Shell to