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Australian Provaris Energy has informed that it continues to make progress on its Tiwi H2 green hydrogen export project on the Tiwi Islands, Northern Australia through its early works program initiated in late 2022 that covers detailed engineering, permitting and land and project agreements.
It stated that significant feasibility work and reporting has been undertaken, including the owner’s engineer’s (CE Partners) completion of the design feasibility report for the proposed solar farm and transmission system.
Provaris said the design feasibility report advances the concept design of the solar farm and transmission system to a 30% level, providing the basis for optioneering and design optimization, and it assesses the proposed 2,640 ha solar precinct area, with the key outcomes concluding that the area supports 2,600 MWp of solar capacity, the preferred solar system is a single axis tracking system, the annual generation is assessed to be over 5,000 GWh, delivered to the HV transmission system, and a four-circuit 275kV transmission line is proposed from the solar precinct to the hydrogen production and export precincts, being a distance of ~30km.
This modelling of the generation outcomes has led to the expected peak hydrogen production and export volume for the Tiwi H2 project being revised to 90,000 tpa, with a +/- 10,000 tpa allowance for planned optimization processes, which will include the targeting of a reduction in identified power losses and further evaluation of equipment design and selection, Provaris pointed out.
The company further said that the permitting and preparation of the EIS continues, noting it has provided the Tiwi Land Council with its proposed draft project and land agreements for review and comment. The agreements, amongst other things, include details of the proposed annual multi-million dollar community benefits package that the Tiwi H2 project could deliver to the Munupi Clan and Tiwi Island people.
Provaris also stated it is communicating with the Office of Township Leasing regarding its commercial sublease application for the hydrogen production and export precincts, and informed it is in the monitoring and dialogue stages with relevant parties in regard to key port and export-related activities |
