Australia’s biggest industrial gas users pump out about 5% of our greenhouse gas emissions. To have any chance of reaching our emissions targets, Australia need to reduce its heavy reliance on fossil gas.
But to make this possible, we need to produce supplies of green hydrogen – made with renewable energy – and biomethane. On current trends, we won’t have enough.
Despite allocating billions of dollars to support green hydrogen, Australia’s policies don’t seem to be working.
The risk is many large factories will either miss their emissions reduction targets by huge margins, or shut down. To prevent this, the federal government needs to foster these crucial green gas industries.
What’s the problem?
