The agreement allows Doosan to advance into overseas markets to expand its hydrogen business and for South Australia to establish itself as ‘a global eco-friendly leader’.

The three parties have agreed to exchange equipment for production of hydrogen, establish strategies to secure global competitiveness in hydrogen exports, secure partnerships and projects to accelerate decarbonisation and develop domestic markets with green hydrogen supply and utilisation infrastructure.

Jeff Hyungrak Chung, CEO of HyAxiom, said, “We embrace the opportunity to help South Australia develop the green hydrogen industry as part of their overall renewable energy plan.

“South Australia is well on its way to becoming a global leader in supply green hydrogen and we are proud to partner with them and DFCC.”

In 2021, DFCC made history as the company revealed it became the first to export hydrogen fuel cells overseas.

The installation of four Doosan 440kW hydrogen fuel cells that now act as distributed power sources in China to supply electricity, heat for cooling and heating to apartments and other buildings.

Read more: Doosan Fuel Cell makes history as the first exporter of hydrogen fuel cells in Korea

The South Australian government recently announced plans to increase the proportion of renewable energy, which is about 78% of total electricity production, to 100% by 2030 and is actively pushing for legislation for required infrastructure.

The government has set up a plan and schedule to build a combined plant where 250MW water electrolysers, 200MW hydrogen power plants and hydrogen storage facilities co-located.

Last year, the South Australian government announced it intends to develop new hydrogen legislation to license and regulate the production of hydrogen in South Australia.

Read more: South Australia Government set to develop a new hydrogen Act

The Australian Government also confirmed that $288m will be allocated to Tasmania and South Australia in order to develop hydrogen hubs in the country.

With this, the Bell Bay region of Tasmania will be developed into a hydrogen hub with the support of $70m from the federal government, enabling the rapid scaling of the Tasmanian hydrogen industry to become a leading region in the Australian hydrogen market.

Read more: Australian Government commits $288m to hydrogen hubs in Tasmania and South Australia

HyAxiom, a subsidiary of Doosan Corporation, announced last year it is to test the use of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) powering a deep-sea liquefied natural gas carrier in a partnership with Shell.

The pilot project will test the technology’s ability to cut carbon emissions from maritime transport, one of the hardest-to-abate sectors, ahead of a proposed launch in 2025.

Read more: Shell and HyAxiom to run SOFC maritime pilot on natural gas vessel