GFG Alliance Strikes Deal With SA Government to Explore Hydrogen Offtake

SA Premier Peter Malinauskas said the agreement provided “a roadmap to decarbonisation.”

South Australian Opposition leader and SA Labor Leader Peter Malinauskas speaks to Australian Submarine Corporation workers during a lunch time rally about the future of 700 submarine maintenance jobs at ASC in Adelaide, Monday, September 2, 2019. (AAP Image/Kelly Barnes) NO ARCHIVING

The South Australian (SA) government has coined a deal with the owner of the Whyalla Steelworks that will allow the company to explore a hydrogen offtake from a taxpayer-funded power station.

British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, which owns the steelworks, will explore commercial supply from the Port Bonython power station near Whyalla, a region largely dependent on iron ore mining and steel manufacturing.