Trafigura Group, global metal manufacturing business Nyrstar, and the State Government of South Australia have launched a joint investment to construct a commercial-scale green hydrogen-manufacturing facility in Port Pirie.
The Port Pirie Green Hydrogen Project has an estimated design and construction cost of A$750 million ($536 million).The full-scale plant will produce 100 tons per day of green hydrogen at full capacity from a 440-megawatt electrolyzer, enabling it to meet both export- and domestic-supply needs.
The project will also be integrated into Nyrstar Australia’s metals recovery smelter at Port Pirie, using existing infrastructure to accelerate production of green hydrogen instead of developing a project on a new greenfield site. Trafigura will source 100-percent-renewable energy to provide the electricity needed to run the project’s electrolyzer, which also will contribute to decarbonizing the existing smelter’s power supply.
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