Research Program 1: Future Fuel Technologies, Systems and Markets

RESEARCH PROGRAM 1: FUTURE FUEL TECHNOLOGIES, SYSTEMS AND MARKETS Program 1 focuses on the understanding of the technical, commercial and market barriers to, and opportunities for, the use of future fuels.Research will generate tools to model production and delivery systems for future fuels like hydrogen, biogas, methanol and ammonia. The tools will incorporate current plans for Australia’s energy market, consistent with abatement targets, to generate scenarios to meet its commitments at the lowest total cost to consumers.Techno-economic models of fuel production processes and supply chains will be developed to identify major technical or cost hurdles to the commercial uptake of low carbon fuels. Transformational technology will then be developed to solve these issues. Policy reforms necessary to enable implementation will be identified and presented to government.The CRC will leverage demonstration projects planned by industry participants, including pilots demonstrating the injection of hydrogen into gas networks and ‘Power to Gas’ technology that utilises surplus renewable electricity. Research is required to develop, prove and exploit these technologies for Australian conditions.Research will characterise the properties of low carbon fuels and determine how they will impact residential, commercial and industrial customers, and solutions will be developed to address these impacts.