Hydrogen Industry Mission

Opportunity

The National Hydrogen Strategy was adopted by all federal, state and territory governments in 2024. It sets the vision for a clean, innovative, safe and competitive hydrogen industry that helps our nation transition to a sustainable and affordable low emissions future..

According to the strategy, Australia’s renewable hydrogen exports could create tens of thousands of direct and indirect jobs by 2040. With several international trade partners setting ambitious hydrogen import targets, Australia has the opportunity be a global hydrogen leader. Australian renewable hydrogen can help to meet the country’s and the world’s decarbonisation targets.

Areas of focus

Hydrogen research, development and demonstration projects

We have four mission pillars:

• Hydrogen Knowledge Centre. A national resource for industry, government and the research community which highlights Australia's hydrogen projects and provides modelling tools and educational resources.
• Strategy and International Partnerships. Delivering trusted independent strategic and technical analysis to de-risk projects, and promoting international research collaboration.
• Demonstration projects. Collaborative partnerships that validate hydrogen value chains and de-risk enabling technologies to inform investment and deployment decisions.
• Enabling science and technology. Delivering science and technology solutions and socio-economic analysis to remove barriers to hydrogen industry scale-up.