The province of Inner Mongolia in China has approved a mega-project for green hydrogen.
The projects are planned to be in the cities of Ordos and Baotou. According to the Hydrogen Energy Industry Promotion Association, they would utilize 1.85 GW of solar and 370 MW of wind to produce 66,900 tpa of green hydrogen.
The projects will produce enough hydrogen output to substitute roughly 21 million gallons of gasoline/year if it were used for fuel cell vehicles. Less than 20% of the power from the Inner Mongolian development will go to the grid, with the rest dedicated to green hydrogen.
However, these projects will install more electrolyzers than the entire global market in 2021 as it requires at least 465 MW of electrolyzers to produce that much hydrogen.
The development will start in October and the projects will be operational in mid-2023. The information regarding the cost nor developers was not revealed.
