Fortescue turns sod on world’s largest electrolyser facility
Construction begins today on the first stage of Fortescue Future Industries’ (FFI) Green Energy Manufacturing Centre (GEM) in Gladstone Queensland.
According to Fortescue newsroom, the GEM will be powered by green energy and become a major new pollution free green manufacturing hub and will help create hundreds of new direct and indirect jobs in regional Queensland.
"Stage one is the A$114 million (US$83 million) electrolyser facility, which will be expanded as current demand indications crystalise. The GEM has several growth stages already planned into its factory footprint which includes green manufacturing technology such as cables, batteries, wind turbines and solar panels.
The GEM will adopt world leading technology and manufacturing practices and will help transform Queensland into a green energy superpower.
The electrolyser facility will have an initial capacity of two gigawatts per annum – more than doubling current global production, and enough to produce more than 200,000 tonnes of green hydrogen each year.
The electrolyser facility will see Gladstone become a world leading hub for the manufacture of electrolysers which are vital to the production of green hydrogen – a zero-carbon fuel that will decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy haulage, shipping, aviation, and industry."
