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China new 150-MW green
hydrogen project is largest ever
CHINA CHINA’S Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group has The China Hydrogen Alliance (CHA), which
switched on the world’s largest green hydrogen operates under government oversight, said
project, a 150-MW alkaline electrolyser that is in September 2021 in a position paper called
powered by a 100-MW solar farm. the Renewable Hydrogen 100 Initiative that it
Ningxia Baofeng, which manufactures coal- wanted Beijing to “strive” to install 100 GW by
based chemicals, said it had completed con- 2030.
struction at the site in the autonomous region of At present, there are just 76 MW of green
Ningxia in central China in December. hydrogen electrolysers in the world, according to
The project is five times larger than the previ- the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Hydro-
ous record holder: another 30-MW project that gen Project Database.
Baofeng commissioned in April 2021. The output value of the country’s hydrogen
The record before that had been held by Air industry is forecast at 1 trillion yuan ($154bn) in
Liquide’s 20-MW Becancour project in Canada, five years’ time, China Hydrogen Alliance said,
installed in January 2021. and it could reach 12 times that by 2050.
However, it will not the world’s largest project Meanwhile, BloombergNEF said that global
for long, as Sinopec has begun construction of green electrolyser manufacturing capacity could
a 260-MW alkaline electrolyser facility in Xin- only reach 3.1 GW per year by the end of 2021.
jiang, north-west China, which is due to be com- Hydrogen is widely viewed as vital to China’s
pleted in mid-2023. drive to decarbonise its economy by 2060. China
That facility will be powered by solar power is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2060, and for
(from an on-site 300-MW array) and wind CO2 emissions to peak by 2030 at the latest.
farms, Xiaoting Wang, Chinese hydrogen spe- For example, in August China revealed plans
cialist at BloombergNEF, said in a note. to use solar and wind to produce 66,900 tonnes
The developments come as the China’s hydro- per year (tpy) of green hydrogen in the cities of
gen industry has urged the government to set a Ordos and Baotou in Inner Mongolia.
target of 100 GW of green hydrogen electrolyser
capacity by 2030.
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