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Energy Cluster News – Freedom Energy to Pave the Way into a Better Geopolitical Environment By Florence Lindhaus, German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce
The Russian war is jumpstarting the bilateral green hydrogen industry, building on many a positive development in both countries
It doesn’t, therefore, come as a surprise that the first MoUs are emerging between Australian company Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and German energy company E.ON or German chemical company Covestro and German-French aviation company Airbus for the offtake of green hydrogen. Andrew Forrest has coined the fitting term “Freedom Energy” for renewable Sadly, the Russian war in the Ukraine energy from non-authoritarian paints dependence on petrostates in a very grim light. How many wars could be countries, and Germany is certainly prevented – past, present, and future – if gearing up to import those by massively investing in new gas terminals and energy was not something we dig but something we harvest? And even better: pipelines. In light of the war in the Ukraine, the German government something we deal very carefully with? committed to 80% renewable power Renewable energy is the name of the (some 600 terawatt-hours) in the mix by game, and green hydrogen is giving it 2030 and almost 100% green electricity a time and space option. Australia has by 2035, a substantial proportion of it to the potential to produce 27 times more be collected from offshore wind. energy than it needs (ANU) and has all Australia is also ramping up in the the infrastructure in place to ship some of it as green hydrogen to countries that offshore sector, with Victoria making haven’t got the same renewable energy bold announcements not only to cover large amounts of its energy demand resources, such as Germany.
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