Steps to accelerate net zero delivery
Clare Anderson A * , Paul Ebert B , Kerry-Ann Adamson B and Chris Greig CA
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Group Director Sustainability Performance for Worley. Clare Anderson has a PhD in low carbon technologies and has worked primarily in the energy industry providing project and engineering management across all phases of project development in Europe, South Africa, and Australia. Clare is the chair of the Industry Board for the Net Zero Initiative at the University of Sydney and is on the advisory panel of Net-Zero Australia. |
Group Director Sustainability & Energy Transition Leadership for Worley. Paul Ebert’s career has mostly followed the rise of renewable energy following a PhD in wind turbine aerodynamics, although has broadened to include other technologies and integration of lower emissions options into the more complex industries. Paul is a former Chair of ARENA’s Advisory Panel, and sits on similar panels for NZAust, CSIRO and ANU. |
Global Strategic Advisor for Hydrogen at Worley, Chairwoman of the British Standards Institute GSE/5 hydrogen strategy committee, and NED of the hydrogen production company Plus Zero. She has a PhD in hydrogen and fuel cells from a technology evolution perspective. Working across the hydrogen value chain Kerry-Ann Adamson is recognised globally as a subject matter expert and has a 25-year track record of innovation, lateral thinking, and challenging the status quo to deliver results. In 2022 she was presented one of the inaugural Women in Hydrogen 50 awards in the category or projects and partnerships. |
Theodora D. and William H. Walton III Senior Research Scientist at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy & the Environment and co-led the Net-Zero America study. With a PhD in chemical engineering, Chris Greig is a fellow of ATSE and is an adjunct professor at UQ. He has extensive industry experience, as a company founder and senior executive and non-executive roles in major engineering and resource companies. |
Abstract
Worley and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment are working together to shift the net zero narrative from what is needed, to how to meet this immense infrastructure delivery challenge. Together, we assert that this challenge cannot be met through a traditional project delivery approach. We have developed a new delivery paradigm, which identifies five key shifts in infrastructure delivery practices to build the durable, responsible, and pragmatic means of achieving the required scale and speed of mid-century net zero. We believe that the new delivery paradigm needs to be in place by 2030, and an annual survey conducted by Princeton University is tracking the uptake by industry. The third instalment in our thought leadership series ‘From Ambition to Reality (FATR): Steps to accelerate net zero delivery’, explores the scale of the EU’s 2030 Hydrogen ambition and how the five key shifts could accelerate the delivery of 10 million tonnes per annum of renewable hydrogen in the next 6 years. This has led to our proposed EU Renewable H2 Plan, which has been further globalised to our 2024 FATR Plan for application to any low carbon sector or supply chain. In this paper, we examine the initiatives set out in the 2024 FATR Plan in the context of the Australian oil and gas industry. We outline the steps that can be taken right now to support the decarbonisation of the Australian oil and gas industry alongside the development of a new hydrogen industry.
Keywords: annual survey, decarbonisation, delivery, infrastructure, measurement, metrics, net-zero, oil and gas, steps.
Group Director Sustainability Performance for Worley. Clare Anderson has a PhD in low carbon technologies and has worked primarily in the energy industry providing project and engineering management across all phases of project development in Europe, South Africa, and Australia. Clare is the chair of the Industry Board for the Net Zero Initiative at the University of Sydney and is on the advisory panel of Net-Zero Australia. |
Group Director Sustainability & Energy Transition Leadership for Worley. Paul Ebert’s career has mostly followed the rise of renewable energy following a PhD in wind turbine aerodynamics, although has broadened to include other technologies and integration of lower emissions options into the more complex industries. Paul is a former Chair of ARENA’s Advisory Panel, and sits on similar panels for NZAust, CSIRO and ANU. |
Global Strategic Advisor for Hydrogen at Worley, Chairwoman of the British Standards Institute GSE/5 hydrogen strategy committee, and NED of the hydrogen production company Plus Zero. She has a PhD in hydrogen and fuel cells from a technology evolution perspective. Working across the hydrogen value chain Kerry-Ann Adamson is recognised globally as a subject matter expert and has a 25-year track record of innovation, lateral thinking, and challenging the status quo to deliver results. In 2022 she was presented one of the inaugural Women in Hydrogen 50 awards in the category or projects and partnerships. |
Theodora D. and William H. Walton III Senior Research Scientist at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy & the Environment and co-led the Net-Zero America study. With a PhD in chemical engineering, Chris Greig is a fellow of ATSE and is an adjunct professor at UQ. He has extensive industry experience, as a company founder and senior executive and non-executive roles in major engineering and resource companies. |
References
Anderson C, Greig C, Ebert P (2021) From Ambition to Reality: Weaving the thread of net-zero delivery. In ‘Joint Publication of Worley and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment of Princeton University’, August 2021. Available at https://acee.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/from-ambition-to-reality-report.pdf
Anderson C, Greig C, Ebert P (2022) From Ambition to Reality 2: Measuring change in the race to deliver net zero. In ‘Joint Publication of Worley and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment of Princeton University’, September 2022. Available at https://acee.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/worley-from-ambition-to-reality-2-2022.pdf
Anderson C, Ebert P, Greig C (2023) Measuring change in the race to deliver net zero. The APPEA Journal 63(S1), S32-S35.
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Ebert P, Anderson C, Adamson KA, Greig C (2023) From Ambition to Reality 3: Steps to accelerate net zero delivery. In ‘Joint Publication of Worley and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment of Princeton University’, August 2023. Available at https://comms.worley.com/From-Ambition-To-Reality-3-Download
