Trafigura has scrapped its AUD $750m ($472m) plans to develop a green hydrogen facility at Port Pirie, Australia, adding to the growing list of shelved hydrogen initiatives across the country.
The 440MW project announced in 2021 was planned for Trafigura’s metals subsidiary Nyrstar Port Pirie smelter in South Australia. The first stage of the project would have introduced an 85MW electrolyser plant before it was scaled up to 440MW.
Both the government and Trafigura had reportedly committed AUD $2.5m ($1.6m) each towards the project’s design. The initiative would have produced green ammonia for export.
However, the project has now been shelved, reportedly never advancing beyond the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase, and was not included in the Peter Malinauskas Labor government’s hydrogen plans.
