Overview
As part of the National Hydrogen Regulatory Review Commonwealth, state and territory energy and climate change ministers, have developed the National Hydrogen Regulatory Guidebooks for hydrogen production facilities and hydrogen refuelling facilities. This project supersedes what was known as the ‘National Hydrogen Codes of Best Practice’.
The National Hydrogen Regulatory Guidebooks (Guidebooks), aim to:
Provide industry participants with a basic level of knowledge, regarding the properties of hydrogen, as well as an overview of hydrogen production facilities and hydrogen refuelling facilities, hazards and associated mitigations.
Given this, we seek your feedback on whether the Guidebooks are:
To have your say:
Previous consultations
As outlined above, the regulatory guidance drafted under the National Hydrogen Regulatory Review changed their title from ‘National Hydrogen Codes of Best Practice’ to ‘National Hydrogen Regulatory Guidebooks’. This change in title was made to more appropriately reflect the purpose and nature of these documents.
To date several public consultations have been held to support the development of the ‘National Hydrogen Regulatory Guidebooks’. These public consultation processes include:
Technical and regulatory mapping underpinning the National Codes of Best Practice: Hydrogen Production and Refuelling, November 2024.
National Hydrogen Codes of Best Practice Co-design workshops, October 2023.
Review consultation, November 2022.
These public consultations are supplemented with multiple consultations with Commonwealth, state and territory regulators and departments.
Details of these consultation processes include:
Technical and regulatory mapping underpinning the National Codes of Best Practice: Hydrogen Production and Refuelling, November 2024.
In November 2024 public consultation on the scope and contents of the National Codes of Best Practice Hydrogen Production and Refuelling (as they were then known) were completed. This consultation process included:
Facility Technical Maps for hydrogen refuelling and hydrogen production facilities. These ‘strawperson’ documents created for the purpose of collectively agreeing a standardised understanding of the operating environment of production and refuelling facilities relevant to hydrogen regulatory frameworks (including relevant job roles and competencies).
Draft Regulator Matrix: the Regulator Matrix provides a snapshot of how relevant regulatory frameworks across Australia apply to hydrogen production and refuelling facilities, and also identified relevant regulators should proponents have any queries about an approval or compliance obligation regarding their project.
National Hydrogen Codes of Best Practice Co–design workshop materials – October - November 2023
The early stages of development of the National Hydrogen Codes of Best Practice (as they were then known) commenced with co-design workshops, attended by both industry participants and regulators. These workshops were hosted through a number of face-to-face and online sessions between October and November 2023.
1st phase review consultation of National Hydrogen Regulatory Review - December 2022
The first phase of the National Hydrogen Regulatory Review was conducted during 2022, culminating in industry and regulator consultations in December 2022. The outcomes of these consultations informed the identification of priority reform measures, including the drafting of the National Hydrogen Regulatory Guidebooks.
