China's State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has unveiled a CNY42bn (US$5.85bn) investment plan in northeast China to produce fuel from hydrogen, itself produced from a planned 3.5 GW wind power plant. Other than the wind power plant, the project will include a 164 kt/year hydrogen production facility, which is expected to allow the production of 400 kt/year each of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and methanol.
The project will be built near the city of Qiqihar, in the Heilongjiang Province (northern China) and start of production could potentially begin by 2025, but an official timeline has not yet been communicated. In a first phase, SPIC will develop a 10 kt/year SAF pilot plant, using wind-based hydrogen and will be later expanded to 400 kt/year by around 2030. SPIC has the largest renewables resources among China's state utilities, operating 160 GW of installed clean power capacity.
In 2022, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued its Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035), targeting a production of 100-200 kt/year of green hydrogen, and aiming for the country to have a mature hydrogen industry by 2035.
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