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Billionaire Eyes Washington’s Last Coal Plant for Green
Hydrogen
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Future Industries will study
converting Centralia’s coal facility in Washington.
By
Georgina McKay
May 12, 2022
The clean energy unit of Australia’s Fortescue
Metals Group Ltd. is considering building a green hydrogen
facility near Washington State’s last operating coal-fired power
station.
Fortescue Future Industries entered into a binding exclusivity
agreement with an industrial
park near TransAlta Corp.’s Centralia facility,
which is scheduled to close in 2025, the Perth-based company said
Friday in a statement. FFI said it intends to seek to employ the
existing coal workforce for the proposed project.
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Andrew Forrest Source: Bloomberg
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decade. The world’s fourth-biggest iron ore exporter has a lineup of
multibillion-dollar projects to reach that goal, ranging from a plan to
supply Europe together with German energy giant EON SE to buying Williams
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“FFI’s goal is to turn North America into a leading global green
energy heartland and create thousands of green jobs now and more in
the future,” Forrest said. “Repurposing existing fossil fuel
infrastructure to create green hydrogen to power the world is part of
the solution to saving the planet.”
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