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Australian Renewable Energy Hub

planned Renewable energy plant

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Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ104869813 ↗
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The Australian Renewable Energy Hub, formerly Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH), is a proposal to create one of the world's largest renewable energy plants in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. After several revisions of the original project concept, in January 2023 the Government of Western Australia approved a revised set of seven projects, totalling 26 GW of wind and solar capacity that would be used to produce green hydrogen, to be exported by converting it to ammonia.

History

The Asian Renewable Energy Hub was first proposed in 2014, with plans for the project concept changing several times since then. The project initially aimed to supply power via an undersea power cable (to Indonesia and perhaps on to Singapore) with a capacity of 15 gigawatts (GW), using four cables, each 3,000 km (1,900 mi) long. However, having explored the potential of exporting green hydrogen via the manufacture of ammonia, it was able to aim for an extra 11GW. The Government of Western Australia gave environmental approval for phase one of the project (15,000 megawatts (MW) of power generation, across 6,500 km2 (2,500 sq mi) in October 2020.

Given the status of "major project" by the federal government in October 2020, the proposed development of the plant enables the goals set under the Western Australian Renewable Hydrogen Strategy to be brought forward from 2040 to 2030.

After a revised proposal was submitted to the Australian Government, in June 2021 Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley ruled this plan unacceptable owing to its potential impact on threatened migratory species and internationally significant wetlands in the area. Eighty Mile Beach is a RAMSAR listed site which provides habitat for several threatened species of migratory birds and a large population of waterbirds, which would be disrupted by the marine components of the project, which would affect tidal movements. The consortium continue to work on the environmental impact plans and mitigation measures.

As of June 2022, the project developers BP, Intercontinental Energy, CWP Global, Vestas, and Pathway Investments were planning to build a mixture of wind power and solar energy power generators which would generate up to 26GW of power.

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