Director of Energy Initiatives, Geoscience Australia
Dr Andrew Feitz is Director of Energy Initiatives and Advice at the Australian Government’s national geoscience agency, Geoscience Australia. He is an environmental engineer and has over 15 years of research experience in geological storage of CO2. Prior to joining Geoscience Australia in 2008, Andrew was a senior researcher in environmental treatment technologies at UNSW and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
Andrew leads Geoscience Australia’s technical advice on hydrogen and geological storage of CO2. He has served on a number of advisory committees to the Australian Government on CCS and hydrogen. Andrew leads Hydrogen Assessments under the Australian Government’s new Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity initiative, including ongoing development of a geospatial-economic analysis tool for estimating hydrogen production costs, natural hydrogen, and underground hydrogen storage.