World news: South Korea, Chile, New Zealand, Japan and Australia, Italy

Eleven of South Korea’s influential conglomerates, or chaebol — including Samsung and Hyundai — have banded together with the aim of turning the country into a major force in the global hydrogen economy, while promising to invest a combined $37.3bn in the sector by 2030.
It is a rare act of co-operation for the chaebol, which, together with four medium-sized Korean companies, have formed a council called the Korea H₂ Business Summit.
The 15 members say they will build up supply chains and infrastructure to enable the use of hydrogen across many sectors, including transport and power — both domestically and internationally. The new group will also promote the domestic hydrogen industry, discuss sectoral challenges, offer policy recommendations to the national government and co-operate in order to compete on the global stage as quickly as possible.
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Work has started on a pioneering green hydrogen production plant in Chile that is backed by global giants including Enel and Siemens Energy and will help development of e-fuels by Porsche.
The plant in Cabo Negro will use wind-power to produce renewable H2 using a 1.25MW electrolyser linked to a 3.4MW turbine in what is Enel Green Power’s first green hydrogen project to get underway globally.
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Air New Zealand will team up with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus to study the viability of flying zero-emissions hydrogen aircraft in New Zealand, in a move aimed helping the airline meet its net-zero emissions by 2050 target.
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Liquefied hydrogen supplier Iwatani Corp. and three other Japanese firms will partner with two Australian companies to carry out a feasibility study for a green liquefied hydrogen supply chain project in the state of Queensland.
The six parties aim to produce more than 100 tons of hydrogen per day around 2026 and raise daily output to 800 tons from 2031.
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Three hydrogen plants with a combined capacity of 220MW planned for Italy.
Three plants would be able to produce 300 million cubic metres of renewable hydrogen every year, which would be used for local industries, mobility and injecting, or blending, hydrogen into Snam’s gas network.
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