(HyPT-3) Overview of Session 1B - Large-Scale Electrolysers

Tuesday 12 September 2023 4:30pm - 6:00pm ACST (UTC+9:30)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Max Ellerich (NEA group), Cameron Smith (FFI), Richard Day (OHPSA), PANELLISTS Dr Jenny Hayward (CSIRO), Judy Hua Yang (PERIC), CHAIR Dr Philip van Eyk (UoA)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Max Ellerich (NEA group)

Max Ellerich, born in 1986, finished his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration with the focus in Energy Technologies at RWTH Aachen University. After working as executive assistant to the managing director of a 3^rd party logistics company, Max headed back to RWTH Aachen University to conduct his PHD at Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL). During his six years at WZL, Max was managing director of the IT startup innoTecS, focusing the optimization of production planning and control.

He furthermore was assigned Chief Engineer of the department for Quality Intelligence at the Chair for Metrology and Quality Management from 2018 to 2020. At NEUMAN & ESSER (NEA), Max started within the Business Development of the NEA Energy Strategical Business Unit. In his current role as Solution Manager H2 Production, Max is now globally responsible for electrolyzers at NEA, where he aligns sales, business development and product development for electrolyzer systems.

Cameron Smith (FFI)

Mr Smith is a former military officer who holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wollongong. He has over 20 years’ experience working in senior leadership roles in both government and private organisations, predominantly in the Military, Security, Construction and Mining sectors.  

Mr Smith has been with Fortescue since its inception having worked previously in a consulting role for Fortescue enabling their operations in remote and developing regions globally. A key focus of Mr Smith’s former roles has been working across several post conflict and developing nations to build internal capacity for governance, in turn creating viable projects that encourage local development and employment.  

More recently Mr Smith was given the Manufacturing portfolio where he is responsible to ensure all the major input systems and components for the FFI Projects are available at a viable cost, quality, and quantum. This role has a broad focus across the value chain and currently involves projects in wind and solar generation, hydrogen production and major electrification systems.  

Richard Day (OHPSA)

Richard joined the South Australian Government in 2001 and since that time has worked across the energy, climate change, industry and low carbon economy portfolios.

He currently heads up a Directorate within the Department of Energy and Mining that is charged with capturing the economic growth and decarbonisation opportunities associated with South Australia’s clean energy transformation towards net 100% renewables, as well as sharing this story with the world

Richard has spearheaded the development of SA’s Hydrogen Roadmap, Hydrogen Action Plan, Hydrogen Export Modelling Tool, and overseen the development of the State’s Electric Vehicle Action Plan. He is passionate about opportunities to further grow and attract energy intensive value-added industries to SA and export South Australia’s renewables to the world as low carbon products.

PANELLISTS

Dr Jenny Hayward (CSIRO)

Jenny has a PhD from the University of Sydney in computational chemistry and has expertise techno-economic, economic, chemical and biological modelling. She has worked in interdisciplinary environments to provide analysis on issues of future strategic significance.

Jenny is a principal research scientist in CSIRO Energy. She leads research projects on technology cost projections and the models she has developed are used to project the cost of electricity generation, energy storage and hydrogen production technologies for AEMO and the Australian Government. Jenny has made economic modelling contributions to roadmap and renewable energy projects, including CSIRO Energy Storage Roadmap, the Federal government’s 2020 Low Emissions Technology Statement, the CSIRO National Hydrogen Roadmap and the Low Emissions Technology Roadmap.

She has contributed to studies undertaken by CSIRO on different parts of the hydrogen value chain, transport, biofuels, energy storage, remote area power systems and all types of electricity generation and fuel conversion technologies. Dr Hayward’s focus is on developing new methods and modelling approaches to provide robust projections of the capital costs of existing and emerging electricity generation and fuel conversion technologies. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Mission Innovation international clean energy initiative.

Judy Hua Yang (PERIC)

Ms. Judy Hua Yang is the Business Development Manager of PERIC Hydrogen Technologies in charge of international market development, project management and international standards’ compliance. Judy has managed the international projects with, such as, Air Liquide (Singapore and Taiwan), AMM Power (USA), Engie (Australia) and TEZCAN (Turkey), etc. She graduated from Renmin University in 2014 with a Master in English Language & Literature.

In Australia, Judy and PERIC have worked with local partner like Dimer Technologies in successfully signing the turn-key electrolyser contracts with Engie Yuri Project in WA (10MW), Lion Project in QLD (1.2MW) and Uni Melbourne Project (Pilot H2 Plant supported by the Gates Foundation).  Meanwhile, PERIC is engaged in the tenders of 10MW in NSW and 40MW in QLD, as well as taking part in FEEDs, FS and Designs of four more large projects of green hydrogen and green ammonia rated at 100MW, 400MW and 1GW, respectively.