National Hydrogen Strategy Issues Papers

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Karen Purdy

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Redland City Council

Issue 5: Understanding community concerns for safety and the environment

4. How can we best balance the water and land use requirements for environmental, agricultural, community and hydrogen production uses?

How can we best balance the water and land use requirements for environmental, agricultural, community and hydrogen production uses?
The use of waste water treatment plants as hydrogen production facilities has significant opportunities for balancing water and land use requirements. Co-locating hydrogen production with existing wastewater treatment facilities presents as a compatible land use with these existing facilities, and enables use of wastewater by-product to feed the hydrogen production process, as well as make the treatment process more efficient by integrating the oxygen by-product back in to the treatment process. Other process integration is also apparent for sludge drying (heat).

5. Hydrogen production projects will require significant project and environmental approvals at the local, state and federal level. What approaches could help to manage these approvals to facilitate industry development while providing suitable environmental and natural resource protections and managing community expectations? When do these approaches need to be in place by?

Hydrogen production projects will require significant project and environmental approvals at the local, state and federal level. What approaches could help to manage these approvals to facilitate industry development while providing suitable environmental and natural resource protections and managing community expectations? When do these approaches need to be in place by?
For co-locating hydrogen production with existing wastewater treatment facilities, consideration should be given to how the land use is defined and therefore the level of assessment of the project (particularly if this type of project could be rolled out widely across local government areas). In Redland City Council area, based on your current understanding of the potential sewerage treatment plant project, and integrating hydrogen production to create power and process efficiencies for the STPs, the view is that the definition is probably ‘Utility Installation’. The level of assessment of “Utility Installation” in the Community Facilities Zone (zoning of our Sewerage Treatment Plant sites) is ‘accepted where undertaken by a public sector entity’.

utility installation means the use of premises for—
(a)a service for supplying or treating water, hydraulic power or gas; or
(b)a sewerage, drainage or stormwater service; or
(c)a transport service; or
(d)a waste management service; or
(e)a maintenance depot, storage depot or other facility for a service stated in paragraphs (a) to (d).

Issue 8: Hydrogen for transport

2. What groups or companies could coordinate procurement of hydrogen cars, buses and ferries?

What groups or companies could coordinate procurement of hydrogen cars, buses and ferries?
Hydrogen Buses - Palisade, ARENA, Transit Systems, Star Community Transport, Schools and school buses, Straddie Flyer (mainland connecting bus to ferry terminal for North Stradbroke island). Trucks - RACQ. Passenger Ferries - Sealink.

5. What are some ways hydrogen vehicles could be showcased and demonstrated to the community at large?

What are some ways hydrogen vehicles could be showcased and demonstrated to the community at large?
Subsidised public transport for an initial period to allow ‘free’ trips for the community.