Australia is expected to get more hydrogen servicestations after...

Australia is expected to get more hydrogen servicestations after the country’s largest petrol

retailer teamed with a US firm specialising in thealternative fuel.

Ampol announced its partnership with OneH2 on Monday,revealing the

companies would work together to speed up the use ofhydrogen in the

Australian market and help to cut emissions from heavytransport.

Ampol said the partnership was an important step inexpanding greener transport options in Australia

The news comes weeks after rival BP opened the firsthydrogen refuelling facility at an

Australian service station and after a CSIRO reportwarned the industry needed to ramp up hydrogen investments

or risk falling behind progress overseas.

Ampol international and new business executive generalmanager Brent Merrick said the company’s partnership was an important step inexpanding greener transport options in Australia and giving companies theconfidence to invest in new vehicles.

“Hydrogen has a key role to play in reducing emissionsacross Australia’s transport and broader energy sector and offers a uniqueopportunity to decarbonise hard to abate heavy transport and heavy machinerysectors,” Merrick said.

“We expect early hydrogen adoption within heavier vehiclefleets and operations who will benefit from short refuelling times and longerrange compared to current battery electric alternatives.”

OneH2 chief executive Paul Dawson said the company, whichhas been developing hydrogen transport and on-site generation solutions since2015, would increase distribution of the new fuel in Australia.

“Hydrogen as a transport fuel is not easy,” he said.

“Our experience in designing, manufacturing and deployinghydrogen equipment across the US over the last eight years will allow us toaccelerate its adoption in the Australian market.”