China: China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced in March a target-plan to produce 200,000 tons of “green hydrogen” annually by 2025, as well as reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by one to two million tons.
China’s “green hydrogen” facility, which is currently being built in Xinjiang, will help reduce the country’s carbon emissions by about 500,000 tons annually, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
The factory in Kuka, in the south of the region, will be one of the largest projects of its kind worldwide. It will generate electricity from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power to split water into its two nuclear components, oxygen and hydrogen.
The average wind speed in Xinjiang province is 8.92 meters per second. To address energy shortages in the country’s most densely populated areas, hydrogen can be liquefied and pumped through…