Background

The Interim Roadmap was informed by regional stakeholder workshops in late 2022 and early 2023. The Interim Roadmap outlined:

• strategic opportunities within New Zealand’s energy system for hydrogen to support emissions reductions (particularly for hard-to-electrify applications), economic development and contribute to New Zealand’s energy security and resilience.
• scenario modelling commissioned to inform development of the Interim Roadmap. This modelling estimated that hydrogen production using renewable electricity could require significant additional generation capacity above the amounts estimated in electricity forecasts to date.
• an initial position on the potential for the export of hydrogen or derivatives from New Zealand, and the possible implications and trade-offs for the electricity system.
• signalled government actions to address the identified barriers to hydrogen deployment in New Zealand. Proposals included establishing a government and sector body, undertaking a regulatory work programme to enable safe use of common infrastructure and enable near-term use cases and exploring the need for certification of emissions content. It also highlighted the two hydrogen-related initiatives announced as part of Budget 2023 – the Regional Hydrogen Transition consumer rebate scheme and the Clean Heavy Vehicle Grant scheme.
• areas meriting further consideration for developing a final Hydrogen Roadmap. This included work to:
  • test our estimates of the supply and demand of hydrogen when considering the wider energy system and potential alternatives to hydrogen
  • better understand the implications of hydrogen production on the electricity system
  • further explore challenges to commercial viability, particularly in the next decade.

Navigating this document

This document provides a high-level summary of the feedback received on the Interim Roadmap. The Interim Roadmap included 15 discussion questions to guide submissions (refer Annex 2).

Annex 2 - List of discussion document questions

For the purposes of this summary, we have used common terminology throughout for the numbers of submissions that shared a similar view, as set out in Table 1.

Table 1: Definitions of numerical terminology used in this document

Throughout this document we refer to groups of submitters in the categories outlined in Table 2 and a full list of submitter groups and organisations is included in Annex 1.

Annex 1: List of submitter groups and organisations

Table 2: Categories of submitters used in this document

We have also coded statements made in submissions into theme areas. These theme areas are outlined in Table 3 and broadly track the structure of the Interim Roadmap document. We have taken this approach to quantifying submissions and coding statements into themes as:

• submitters did not always answer every question and in some cases they provided general or overarching commentary on the Interim Roadmap
• many submissions included information in one question that had statements relevant to other/multiple questions
• some submissions include the views of multiple organisations or individuals (e.g. a collective or industry organisation)

Table 3: Themes used in this document

< Submissions summary home | Overview of submissions >