A billion-dollar clean energy project that could become Australia’s biggest green hydrogen producer has been given federal government backing, in the form of a $1.6 million cash injection to see if the project can live up to its potential.
The East Kimberley Clean Energy Project is earmarked at around $3 billion, and will involve the construction of a giant 900 megawatt solar farm at Lake Argyle near Kununurra, around 3,000 kilometres north of Perth.
The federal government announced on Tuesday the project would be given the modest…
