These projects alone account for 61GW of the 80GW renewable hydrogen development currently under construction

Despite the challenges that 2020 has brought, as more and more countries around the world have announced ambitious clean hydrogen strategies to help them reduce carbon emissions in transportation, an astonishing 50GW green hydrogen electrolysis project has been announced this year. The current global total is 80GW. Heating and heavy industry. Many of these projects are gigawatts, and it is hoped that their huge scale can quickly reduce the cost of green hydrogen through economies of scale, just as the prices of wind and solar energy have fallen exponentially in the past decade. When you think that the world’s largest electrolyzer currently in operation is only 10MW, the development of green hydrogen is very rapid, and most of these gigawatt H 2 projects will also be one of the largest renewable energy plants on the planet. . This is the 13 largest green hydrogen projects currently under development in the world-all gigawatts, which add up to 61GW. Its facilities will be both the largest wind farm ever and the largest solar array ever. (1) Asian Renewable Energy Center (14GW) Location: Pilbara, Western Australia Power supply: 16GW of onshore wind energy and 10GW of solar energy supply power to the 14GW electrolyzer Developer: Intercontinental Energy Corporation, CWP Asia Energy Corporation, Vestas Corporation, Macquarie Group Planned use of H²: export of green hydrogen and green ammonia to Asia H² output: 1.75 million tons per year (9.9 million tons of green ammonia will be produced) Planned completion date: 2027-28 Estimated cost: 36 billion U.S. dollars Development stage: The Federal Government grants AReh "Major Project Status", which will help to quickly track projects through permits. The now-abandoned 15GW version of the project has obtained state-level environmental approval (the project will export electronic products to Indonesia and Singapore), and the developer is now submitting a second application for the 26GW project, which includes green ammonia facilities and remote A new town was built in Western Australia to house workers. (2) NortH2 (at least 10GW) Location: Emshavin, North Holland Power source: offshore wind energy Developer: Shell, Equinor, RWE, Gasunie, Groningen Seaport Plan to use H²: Helping the development of heavy industry in the Netherlands and Germany H² output: one million tons per year Estimated completion date: 2040 (1GW by 2027, 4GW by 2030) Estimated cost: not stated Development stage: the feasibility study is in progress and will be completed in July 2021 (3) AquaVentus (10GW) Location: Heligoland, Germany Power source: offshore wind energy Developers: A consortium of 27 companies, research institutions and organizations, including RWE, Vattenfall, Shell, E.ON, Siemens Energy, Siemens Gamesa, Vestas, Northland Power, Gasunie and Parkwind Planned use of H²: general sales through the European Hydrogen Network H² output: one million tons per year Estimated completion date: 2035 (it will reach 30MW by 2025 and 5GW by 2030) Estimated cost: not stated Development stage: In the early stage, the project was only announced in August 2020 (4) Murchison Renewable Hydrogen Project (5GW) Location: Near Kalbarri, Western Australia Power source: onshore wind and solar Developer: Hydrogen Renewable Energy Australia and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Planned use of H 2: H 2 will be provided for transportation fuel during the demonstration phase. In the expansion stage, H 2 will be produced and mixed into the local natural gas pipeline; the final large-scale expansion will produce H 2 and export it to Asia, focusing on Japan and South Korea. H² output: not specified Estimated completion date: 2028 Expected cost: US$1-12 billion Development stage: early stage (5) Inner Mongolia Beijing Jingneng (5GW) Location: Eqianqi, Inner Mongolia, China Power source: onshore wind and solar Developer: Beijing Jingneng, a Chinese utility Planned use of H²: unknown H² output: 400,000-500,000 tons per year Estimated completion date: 2021 Estimated cost: USD 3 billion Development stage: under construction (6) Helios Green Fuel Project (4GW) Location: Neom, a planned city in northwestern Saudi Arabia Power source: onshore wind and solar Developer: Aviation Products, ACWA Power, Neom The planned use of H²: to produce green ammonia (NH 4), transport it around the world and convert it back to H 2 for use as transportation fuel. H² output: about 240,000 tons per year (creating 1.2 million tons of green ammonia per year) Estimated completion date: not specified, but the first batch of ammonia will be produced in 2025 Estimated cost: US$5 billion Development stage: early stage, project announced in July 2020 (7) Pacific Solar (3.6GW) Location: Khalid, Queensland, Australia Power supply: solar Developer: Austrom Hydrogen, a start-up company H² production: more than 200,000 tons per year Estimated cost: not stated Estimated completion date: not stated Plan to use H²: export to Japan and South Korea Development stage: Early stage, project announced in June 2020 (8) H² Hub Gladstone (3GW) Location: Gladstone, Queensland, Australia Power supply: renewable energy, but no other regulations Developer: Hydrogen Utility (also known as H2U) Planned use of H²: Green ammonia is exported to Japan and other countries H² production: not specified, but the developer stated that it will "produce up to 5,000 tons of green ammonia per day" Estimated cost: 1.6 billion USD (not including power source) Estimated completion date: not disclosed, but preliminary operations will begin in 2025 Development stage: A feasibility study is underway, and the goal is to get approval before 2023 (9) HyEx (1.6 GW) Location: Antofagasta, Chile Power supply: solar Developer: Engie and Enaex H²'s planned use: green ammonia, half of which will be used in Enaex's ammonium nitrate plant; the rest will be targeted at fuel, green fertilizer and export markets. H² output: 124,000 tons per year (700,000 tons of green ammonia) Estimated cost: not stated Estimated completion date: 2020 (to reach 26MW pilot by 2024) Development stage: Early stage, project announced in October 2020 (10) Geraldton (1.5GW) Location: Geraldton, Western Australia Power source: onshore wind and solar Developer: BP / BP Lightsource Planned use of H²: production of green ammonia for domestic and export markets H² output: not specified, but about one million tons of green ammonia per year Estimated cost: not stated Estimated completion date: not stated Development stage: a feasibility study is underway (11) Greater Copenhagen (1.3GW) Location: Greater Copenhagen, Denmark Power source: offshore wind power is preferred Developers: Orsted, Maersk, DSV Panalpina, DFDS, SAS Planned use of H²: hydrogen for buses and trucks, electronic fuel for transportation and aviation (from green hydrogen and captured CO 2) H² output: Not specified, but "250,000 tons of sustainable fuel" will be produced every year. Estimated cost: not stated Estimated completion date: 2030 (10MW pilot will be reached in 2023 and 250MW will be reached by 2027) Development stage: A feasibility study is underway, with a view to making a final investment decision in 2021 (12) H2 sine (1GW) Location: Sines, southwest of Portugal Power source: uncertain, but may be onshore wind and solar Developers: EDP, Galp, Martifer, REN, Vestas Planned use of H²: domestic consumption and export H² output: not specified Estimated cost: 1.5 billion euros (1.84 billion US dollars) Estimated completion date: 2030 Development stage: a feasibility study is underway (13) Rostock (1GW) Location: Rostock, Germany Power source: offshore wind energy and other renewable energy Developer: a consortium led by RWE Planned use of H²: all avenues being explored H² output: not specified Estimated cost: not stated Estimated completion date: not stated Development stage: very early editor / Xu Shengpeng Source: Seetao

Some of the Largest Hydrogen Projects in the World