Hydrogen fuel stations to be built between Sydney and Melbourne under $20m plan | Hydrogen power

The New South Wales and Victorian governments will spend $20m on hydrogen refuelling stations along Australia’s busiest freight highway in a push to see more zero-emissions technology used in the heavy-vehicle industry.In a joint announcement the two governments say they will each spend $10m on grants to manufacture about 25 hydrogen-fuelled trucks and at least four refuelling stations along the 840km Hume Highway between Sydney and Melbourne.The announcement, which comes on the back of a push from the trucking industry for help transitioning away from fossil fuels, followed the Queensland government’s announcement last week that it planned to build Australia’s first hydrogen refuelling pump at a public service station in Brisbane.NSW’s energy minister, Matt Kean, said the grants were designed to show “the potential of renewable hydrogen for heavy vehicles with the goal of…

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