{"id":486,"date":"2024-10-17T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T02:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/port-of-newcastle-granted-100-million-for-hydrogen-readiness\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T02:13:48","slug":"port-of-newcastle-granted-100-million-for-hydrogen-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/port-of-newcastle-granted-100-million-for-hydrogen-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Newcastle granted $100 million for hydrogen readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:900px; margin:0 auto; background-color:rgb(246,246,246); padding:20px;line-height:30px\">\n<p><strong>The Port of Newcastle has signed agreements for Front End <\/p>\n<p>Engineering Designs (FEED) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for various <\/p>\n<p>infrastructure projects for its Clean Energy Precinct (CEP).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1729131140959531-1.jpg\" alt=\"Port of Newcastle granted $100 million for hydrogen readiness\" title=\"Port of Newcastle granted $100 million for hydrogen readiness\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; padding:20px 0px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The agreements are financed by the Commonwealth Government\u2019s AUS$100 <\/p>\n<p>million ($67 million) grant to the CEP for hydrogen readiness.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Successful tenderers Lumea (electrical), CoNEXA (water), and GHD (general <\/p>\n<p>infrastructure) will complete the FEED and EIS studies, which will guide future <\/p>\n<p>site enablement, site layout, and land platform design, as well as the <\/p>\n<p>preparation of environmental planning permissions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The CEP intends to aid the creation, storage, distribution, and export of <\/p>\n<p>renewable energy, such as green hydrogen and green ammonia.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Once completed, the project is anticipated to enable renewable energy <\/p>\n<p>generation, storage, transmission, domestic distribution, and international <\/p>\n<p>export.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The port\u2019s CEO, Craig Carmody, said: \u201cThe Clean Energy Precinct is central <\/p>\n<p>to the Port of Newcastle\u2019s diversification strategy to create the port that our <\/p>\n<p>community, our region, and our state needs for the future. This phase will <\/p>\n<p>determine the infrastructure and services critical to the progression of the <\/p>\n<p>Precinct\u2019s development and push us further towards hydrogen readiness.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce fully developed, the CEP will contribute AUS$4.2 billion ($2.8 <\/p>\n<p>billion) and is estimated to generate 5,800 new jobs to the Hunter Region by <\/p>\n<p>2040, while supporting the NSW Government\u2019s objectives to accelerate <\/p>\n<p>decarbonisation and clean energy opportunities by increasing renewable energy <\/p>\n<p>generation, storage, and investment under the Electricity Infrastructure <\/p>\n<p>Roadmap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In August, software solutions company, OneStop, announced a strategic <\/p>\n<p>partnership with the Port of Newcastle to transform containerised freight <\/p>\n<p>operations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Newcastle has signed agreements for Front End Engineering Designs (FEED) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for various infrastructure projects for its Clean Energy Precinct (CEP).The agreements are financed by the Commonwealth Government\u2019s AUS$100 million ($67 million) grant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hj_lang":[3],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"hj_lang","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hj_lang?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}