Our green hydrogen story

As the Energy CRI, we’re well placed to combine all our expertise towards building not just a high-tech solution, but an entire industry to support it. Our people are excited, and as we say in this new video, we’re keen to get our stakeholders excited too.

Our Green Hydrogen Story – What is green hydrogen, and why are we so excited about its possibilities? GNS Science's experts explain. transcript

and key to our carbon neutral future.

GNS Science is a government-owned research agency

working with clients all over New Zealand, and all over the world.

We've got years of experience in geothermal and materials science.

New Zealand has plentiful supplies of renewable energy - for example geothermal, wind or solar.

This puts us in a unique position to create a green hydrogen industry,

harnessing renewable energy and storing it so it can be used any time, anywhere.

One part of our green hydrogen research is about making the whole process cheaper.

Right now we need expensive systems, rare materials and pure water.

We're working on new materials that will be more efficient, cheaper

and allow us to use non-pure water sources.

The second part of our research is looking at how we'll build

an industry here in New Zealand

so that we can meet the energy needs of tomorrow

for the benefit of all New Zealanders.

Urgent response to climate change

is one of the biggest challenges facing society right now

and restructuring our energy sector is going to be key to achieving that.

Hydrogen is extremely important. It's one of those tools to help get us there.

GNS brings years of experience working with the energy sector

along with our unique capabilities around materials science

to develop the technologies which will help New Zealand shift to a low carbon future.

It's about creating an ecosystem, industry, infrastructure and people

to access green hydrogen.

We are partnering with major providers to implement green hydrogen in New Zealand.

New Zealand has committed to achieving a zero-carbon economy by 2050.

Green hydrogen will help to get us there.

We're excited and we'd like to talk to you about a greener, brighter future.

John Burnell Geothermal Reservoir Modeller

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John is a numerical modeller who has over 30 years experience working on a wide range of energy related projects. His main focus is geothermal reservoir modelling, undertaking both research and consulting. He has developed models of geothermal systems throughout the world, for both consenting purposes and resource planning. He has worked on models of: Ngawha, Wairakei, Rotokawa, Rotorua, Tauhara, Kawerau, Mokai, (New Zealand), Mt Apo, Bacman (Philippines), Kakkonda, Uenotai, Sumikawa (Japan), and Luiese (Papua New Guinea). He has long-standing involvement in the resource consent process in New Zealand, both developing models to assess environmental impacts and appearing as an expert witness at consent hearings. He is able to develop new software for solving modelling problems, and is the developer of a commercially available Tough2 pre-processor. John is currently the NZ convener of the IPGT Reservoir Modelling Group, and has served on the NZ Geothermal Association Board. In addition to geothermal modelling, John has worked on models of gas reservoirs, heat exchangers, heat transfer in reformer furnaces, casting furnaces, heater design, heat transfer in coolstores, biofilm growth and electroosmotic flow

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