Comment by alephnerd
14 days ago
> these are not Australian Government projects
Imo, there's no reason for them to be.
A lot of the R&D in the Hydrogen space was done by private companies like Eneos, Idemitsu Kosan, Hokkaido Electric, SK Group, Saudi Aramco, BP, GE, Siemens, Reliance, etc.
Just by supporting private sector champions through tax breaks, R&D credits, seed funding, and PLI you are building an ecosystem.
Even China does the same thing in the EV and Solar space, by supporting private sector companies like BYD, DAQI, LONGi, Jinko, Trina, and Canadian Solar.
Sure.
As said before, Australia (as in the Australian Federal Goverment) is rudderless on effective policy .. fortuneatly we have some people working in effective directions, and a number of others doing their best to upset such plans and throw anchors arrears and logs of wood in front.
Agree to disagree I guess.