Channel Infrastructure provided an update on the scoping study for Green Hydrogen Production. Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Channel Infrastructure's study into the potential feasibility of green hydrogen production at Channel's Marsden Point site is progressing, with the next phase, focussed on manufacturing supply for the domestic market, expected to be finalised in the first half of 2023. The initial stage of study works included an assessment of the feasibility of production, storage, distribution, and export of industrial-scale green hydrogen from Marsden Point, and determined that domestic production and use presented the best option for further assessment.

The focus of the study will now shift to the viability of options to produce green hydrogen and green hydrogen products for domestic use in New Zealand, with a range of potential uses under consideration including natural gas substitution, transport fuel and the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel.