The international Hydrogen Grand Prix programme for school students has reached New Zealand for the first time this year.

With New Zealand’s first hydrogen refueling network being set up to fuel freight trucks, a wide range of research is also underway in New Zealand universities and crown research institutes into the production, use and storage of hydrogen – primarily ‘green’ hydrogen produced by splitting water using electrolysis.

The energy, agricultural and waste sectors should collaborate to reduce New Zealand’s emissions by capturing biogas produced from organic waste, an independent report commissioned by Powerco, Clarus and Ecogas says.

The Australian equivalent of GasNZ, Gas Energy Australia (GEA), is going all out in its submission on Australia’s Future Gas Strategy to predict the potential to replace all conventional LPG with net zero bioLPG and renewable synthetic LPG (rLPG) by 2045.

Who doesn’t love a good barbie? The smell of those sizzling sausages brings back happy childhood memories for many Kiwis. And going upmarket, restauranters also love the instant heat that gas can provide.

The Government released its Gas Transition Plan issues paper this month, and is inviting Kiwis to have a say.

Firstgas Group company, First Renewables Limited, and Ecogas have reached another milestone towards making and supplying pipeline-ready biomethane.

Auckland has become a trailblazer in its contribution to renewable gas. And it’s doing it by collecting separated food waste, to convert into gas, with energy partner Ecogas.

A hydrogen blending trial in Germany is testing the potential of greater concentrations of hydrogen gas to replace quantities of natural gas in home and businesses.

With eye catching advertisements across media and billboards, new Firstgas biogas campaign highlights hidden treasure.

Tim Lepper is a Taranaki local through and through. He grew up in New Plymouth around the oil and gas industry. Today Tim is working back in New Plymouth with a focus on renewable gas.

In his recent Sunday Star Times feature, Tom Pullar-Strecker suggests a way forward that would ensure any demand from new household gas connections was met from renewable sources.

New Zealand’s first commercial scale anaerobic digestion plant has opened.