World's largest green hydrogen plant breaks ground in
Ordos
By Yuan Hui in Hohhot and Yang Min | chinadaily.com.cn
A groundbreaking ceremony for a huge green hydrogen plant is held in
Ordos on Feb 16. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The world's biggest project using solar and wind power to produce
hydrogen started construction in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous
region on Wednesday.
It is being built by Sinopec Star Co, a wholly owned subsidiary of
China Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec - the world's largest refiner by
volume and the country's biggest geothermal developer.
The project is Sinopec's first green hydrogen demonstration project in
Inner Mongolia.
The operation of the project consists mainly of five areas: wind and
solar power generation, power transmissions and transformations,
hydrogen production by electrolysis of water, hydrogen storage and
hydrogen transmissions, according to the company.
The installed design capacity for wind and solar power generation will
be 450 megawatts and 270 MW, respectively.
The production capacity of hydrogen through electrolyzed water is
30,000 metric tons per year and the hydrogen storage capacity is
288,000 standard cubic meters, it said.
The total investment of the project is about 5.7 billion yuan ($848.21
million).
When put into production, the project is expected to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions by the equivalent of 1.43 million tons per year,
contribute nearly 600 million yuan to local GDP per year and generate
tax revenue of nearly 30 million yuan each year, according to the
company.
According to the plans, the hydrogen and oxygen produced by the
project will be transported by pipelines to the nearby Ordos coal deep
processing demonstration project charged by ZTHC Energy Co, to replace
part of the coal-to-hydrogen production.
It is expected to effectively promote the integrated development of
the traditional synthetic materials chemicals industry and the
hydrogen energy industry, as well as help expedite the clean and
efficient use of coal.
The project is said to further explore the applications scenario of
green hydrogen in the coal chemicals industry, the company said.
Sinopec chairman Ma Yongsheng said it was of great significance to
ensuring national energy security - and to promoting the
transformation and upgrading of the energy structure and low-carbon
development of Inner Mongolia.
