AGIG receives SA Premier's Community Engagement Award

Australian Gas Networks (AGN), part of the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG), has won the 2022 South Australian Premier’s Community Engagement Award for the Hydrogen Park South Australia (HyP SA) project.

HyP SA began supply of up to 5% blended renewable gas into the AGN existing gas network to more than 700 homes in Mitchell Park back in May 2021, where residents have embraced their status as Australia’s first recipients of renewable blended gas. By early next year, HyP SA will expand its operations to supply up to an additional 3000 homes in nearby suburbs with a renewable gas blend.

“AGIG is very proud and honoured to have been recognised for this award from the South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas. It is a great recognition of the work our team does in engaging with the communities we serve,” said AGIG Chief Executive Officer Craig de Laine. “We thank the community and industry stakeholders associated with HyP SA for their support and participation of our engagement program.”

AGIG is one of Australia’s largest gas infrastructure businesses with operations across every mainland state and the Northern Territory supplying approximately 2 million customers. Operations include 40,000 km of distribution and transmission gas pipelines, 60 PJ of gas storage capacity, gas processing facilities and remote power generation.

AGIG said it is taking active steps to deliver renewable gas and aims to deliver at least 10% renewable gas across its distribution networks by 2030, with a vision of 100% renewable gas by 2040, and by no later than 2050.

AGIG has further plans to develop Hydrogen Park Murray Valley (HyP Murray Valley) — partnering with ENGIE — in Wodonga, Victoria. HyP Murray Valley will comprise a 10 MW electrolyser using renewable electricity to produce hydrogen from 2024. Subject to approvals, the site will blend up to 10% renewable hydrogen into the existing natural gas network to supply more than 40,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Wodonga, Victoria and nearby Albury, New South Wales.

AGIG is also developing a hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Queensland.