Hydrogen attractive replacement for smelter - Meridian

Hydrogen attractive replacement for smelter - Meridian
Gavin Evans
Flexible, large-scale hydrogen production has the potential to help manage dry-year risk in the country’s increasingly renewable electricity supply, Meridian Energy says.The company is talking to “reasonably significant, credible parties” on the opportunity to make hydrogen and ammonia using the electricity that will become surplus when the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter eventually closes, Meridian chief executive Neal Barclay said.The technology exists, but the firms Meridian is talking to are not yet using it commercially at...

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