According to the opinions of the General Office of the Municipal People's Government of Ningbo on accelerating the development of the hydrogen energy industry, 20 to 25 hydrogen refueling stations will be built in Ningbo by 2025; the number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles will exceed 1,500; and a group of hydrogen enterprises with international connections will be gathered. The city will strive to become a global hydrogen energy industry base.
A hydrogen energy industry projects are successfully launched in Ningbo in 2019. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]
In fact, hydrogen energy industry projects have already been successfully launched in Ningbo. At the beginning of 2019, the world's first mass production hydrogen fuel cell production base with methanol as the filling medium was inaugurated in Cixi. The project is divided into two phases.
The first phase attracted an investment of 1.18 billion yuan ($176 million) and was designed to produce 50,000 sets of hydrogen fuel cells. The products will be preferentially applied to the power supply of new energy logistics vehicles. The launch of the project was an important part of Ningbo's layout of the hydrogen energy industry.
Updated: Mar 15, 2019Print
Hydrogen-fueled buses in Ningbo. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]
Hydrogen energy usually refers to the energy released by hydrogen during physical and chemical changes. As a green and efficient energy source, it is a better choice to solve energy problems when compared with tidal or wind energy in terms of storage and transport. It is regarded as the clean energy source with the most potential in the 21st century. In recent years, the core technology of using hydrogen energy has made a major breakthrough in the international arena, and hydrogen energy is moving toward commercialization.
Ningbo government stated that it is necessary to build a hydrogen energy industrial base with global influence. To achieve this goal, the city will take two steps. One step is to build 10 to 15 hydrogen refueling stations over three years with the goal of achieving a production scale of 600 to 800 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. By 2022, industrial clusters of fuel cell stacks, key core components, and fuel cell vehicles will be constructed.
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The opinions document also listed five major tasks: building a hydrogen energy equipment manufacturing base, encouraging hydrogen energy technology innovation and research, promoting hydrogen energy demonstration and application, constructing a hydrogen energy industry innovation collaboration platform, introducing and cultivating hydrogen energy leading enterprises.
Specifically, it will focus on hydrogen production, transport and storage, hydrogenation, and ceating a fuel cell industry chain, with Jiangbei district as the core area. Construction of demonstration hydrogen refueling stations in Beilun district will begin to explore and promote applications such as fuel cell buses, logistics vehicles, port collection trucks and forklifts.
Ningbo's well-developed petrochemical industry can provide abundant hydrogen for the development of a hydrogen energy industry. According to the government, the hydrogen consumption of a hydrogen fuel cell passenger car is one kilogram per 100 kilometers. So far, Ningbo is capable of providing hydrogen energy to support about 21.15 million hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars.
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