CS Energy and TSBE will together work towards identifying the capability and potential of local businesses to support a hydrogen supply chain within the state, according to energy, renewables and hydrogen minister Mick de Brenni.

The project follows the Palaszczuk government's A$2 billion Queensland Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Jobs Fund announced in the 2021-2022 budget.

"Our Hydrogen Industry Strategy 2019-2024 is focussed on developing Queensland's hydrogen industry to create jobs, including investing in four training centres that would skill up a hydrogen workforce," de Brenni said. 

"Hydrogen presents an incredible opportunity in Queensland to create jobs and decarbonise our economy."

The duo will also develop a new online supplier portal, to create the first index of Qld businesses whose operations, expertise and access to resources award them strategic preference within the state's clean energy transition.

TSBE chief executive officer Ali Davenport says the online portal will provide a modernised index of local Qld businesses positioned to develop the hydrogen sector.

"[A] mapping project will collect data to help us get...view of local capability," Davenport said. 

"It will ensure that local companies are able to understand the opportunities around hydrogen."

CS Energy chief executive officer Andrew Bills notes that CS Energy is to provide funding and in-kind support to TSBE across the next six months. 

CS Energy is expected to draw on its ongoing involvement within hydrogen energy solutions broadly, with CS Energy recently completing a joint feasibility study with Japan's IHI Corporation towards a hydrogen demonstration plant onsite the CS Energy owned Kogan Creek Power Station.