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RSMG as a Renewable Fuel

CEWT Policy White Paper (2025)

Executive Summary

Australia is entering a decisive decade where electrification alone cannot deliver deep

industrial decarbonisation. Heavy industry, steelmaking, mining, and baseload power

generation require renewable, storable, dispatchable fuels that work within existing

thermal systems.

Renewable Synthetic Methane Gas (RSMG)—produced from captured CO2 and renewable

hydrogen through CEWT’s Carbon Recycling Technology (CRT)—provides Australia with a

new class of zero‐fossil‐input, closed‐loop, perpetual renewable fuel.

This white paper outlines the scientific, policy, and regulatory basis for recognising RSMG as

an eligible renewable fuel under the Product Guarantee of Origin (PGO) scheme.

1. Introduction: The Need for Renewable Fuels Beyond Electricity

Electrification cannot support:

• 24/7 industrial power

• Firming and grid stability

• High‐temperature industrial heat

• Non‐electrifiable processes

• Large‐scale energy storage

RSMG fills these gaps using existing gas infrastructure and renewable hydrogen inputs.

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2. What is RSMG Under CEWT’s Carbon Recycling Technology?

RSMG under CRT is produced from captured CO2 and renewable hydrogen.

This forms a perpetual carbon loop:

Combustion → CO2 → Capture → Methanation → RSMG → Combustion.

Hydrogen provides the energy. Carbon atoms recycle indefinitely.

3. Why RSMG Must Be Recognised as a Renewable Fuel

• Zero fossil inputs

• Aligned with global synthetic methane definitions

• Compatible with turbines, pipelines, LNG, and industrial furnaces

• Provides dispatchable renewable energy

• Enables deep decarbonisation across steel, alumina, cement, and mining

4. CEWT CRT and the GO Framework

PGO is the correct certification pathway because RSMG is a renewable manufactured

product with clear system boundaries. CRT provides a complete, verifiable methodology for

renewable methane certification.

5. Alignment with Australia’s Net Zero Plan (2025)

RSMG advances all national priorities:

1. Clean electricity across the economy

2. Electrification and efficiency

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3. Expansion of clean fuels

4. Acceleration of new technologies

5. Large‐scale carbon removals

6. Strategic Advantages for Australia

• Establishes Australia as the first nation to certify renewable synthetic methane

• Enables green steel, green metals, and renewable industrial heat

• Strengthens national energy security

• Creates renewable, storable baseload power

• Opens export markets for certified RSMG

7. CRT as the Foundation Methodology

CRT is mass‐balanced, closed‐loop, zero‐fossil, industrial‐scale, infrastructure‐compatible

and ready for regulatory adoption.

It should serve as the foundation methodology for PGO renewable methane certification.

8. Policy Recommendation

Australia should:

1. Formally recognise RSMG as a renewable fuel

2. Adopt CRT as the reference PGO methodology

3. Support RSMG under ARENA, CEFC, and WA programs

4. Enable RSMG‐based baseload renewable power

5. Embed RSMG in industrial precinct decarbonisation frameworks

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9. Conclusion

RSMG from CRT creates a perpetual, renewable, circular energy system powered by

sunlight, seawater, and wind.

Recognising RSMG under PGO will transform Australia’s renewable energy system, enabling

zero‐emission baseload power, decarbonise heavy industry, and position Australia as a global leader in renewable synthetic fuel.

The future belongs to Untegrated Engineering - and CRT is leading the way.

 The Future Belongs to Integrated Engineering — and CRT Is Leading the way

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For more than a century, industries have evolved in silos.

- Mechanical engineers built our machines.

- Electrical engineers built our power systems.

- Chemical engineers built our industrial plants.

- Electronics engineers built communication networks.

- Electrochemical engineers built batteries and electrolysers.

- Computer scientists built the digital world around us.

Each discipline operated independently, solving problems within its own sphere.

But the challenges of today — especially the challenge of clean, reliable, zero‐emission

energy — cannot be solved by one discipline alone.

We are entering a new era where chemistry, electricity, mechanics, and electrochemistry,

electronics, and computation must operate as one unified system.

This is the real future of engineering.

And this is exactly where Carbon Recycling Technology (CRT) comes in.

CRT is not simply a chemical process. It is not just a power engineering system, nor an

electrolysis project. It is a complete integration of all major engineering disciplines:

- Chemical → SMR, syngas, methanation, carbon cycles

- Electrical → GTCC baseload power, renewable balancing

- Electrochemical → hydrogen generation and trimming

- Mechanical → reactors, compressors, heat integration

- Electronics & control → automation, instrumentation

- Computer interface → optimisation, modelling, system intelligence

This is why CRT feels new to the world. It did not emerge from a single engineering

Tradition — it emerged from integration, the very thing the future demands.

The next generation of global infrastructure will not be chemical, or electrical, or

mechanical — it will be all of them together, guided by digital intelligence.

CRT is one of the first technologies to demonstrate this future.

Integrated thinking is no longer optional. It is the foundation for the next industrial era.

— Ahilan Raman

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