Queensland, Australia, has added two more hydrogen clusters following a $100,000 commitment from the government for the technologies, which was delivered in partnership with National Energy Resources Australia.
The new clusters, located in Gladstone and Toowoombawhich, will now work alongside the already established H2Q cluster in Brisbane. H2Q has already developed a detailed market analysis plan and is engaging with local businesses to develop new hydrogen technologies, according to Mick de Brenni, Queensland’s minister for energy, renewables and hydrogen.
The two new clusters also join the Hydrogen Technology Cluster Australia (H2TCA), a national network of 13 clusters that was unveiled in February.
This comes shortly after the development of a national hydrogen technology cluster was identified by the 2019 National Hydrogen Strategy as an important component to scale up Australia’s domestic industry to become a global hydrogen competitor.
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