Resources and Projects

1. Neom, Saudi Arabia

The NEOM Green Hydrogen Project is the world’s largest utility-scale, commercially-based
hydrogen facility powered entirely by renewable energy.
When commissioned in 2026, it will produce 600 tonnes per day of clean hydrogen by
electrolysis using ThyssenKrupp technology; production of nitrogen by air separation
using Air Products technology.
NGHC’s mega-plant will integrate up to 4GW of solar and wind energy to produce up to 1.2
million tonnes of green ammonia translating to up to 600 tonnes per day of carbon-free
hydrogen. Once the plant at NEOM is operational by 2026, 100% of the green hydrogen
produced will be available for global export, in the form of ammonia, through an exclusive long
term agreement with Air Products.

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Fuels, F. (2023, June 3). Largest Green hydrogen projects in the world. LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/largest-green-hydrogen-projects-world-futurefuels.
 2. Puertollano green hydrogen plant, spain

The Puertollano (Spain) plant consists of a 100 MW photovoltaic solar plant, a lithium-
ion battery system with a storage capacity of 20 MWh and one of the largest electrolytic
hydrogen production systems in the world (20 MW). All from 100 % renewable sources.

With an investment of 150 million euros, the initiative will create up to 1,000 jobs and
prevent emissions of 48,000 tCO2/year. The green hydrogen produced there will be used
Fertiberia's local ammonia plant. This is already one of the most efficient plants in the
European Union with a production capacity of more than 200,000 t/year. Fertiberia will
update and modify the plant to be able to use the green hydrogen produced to
manufacture green fertilizers.

The installation will have bifacial panels, never used before in company projects, which
enable greater production since they have two light-sensitive surfaces and provide a
longer useful life. The plant has been designed with cluster inverters or string inverters,
which improve the yield and allow better use of the surface area. The project will have a
storage system, which will facilitate plant management. The battery system (with 5 MW
of power) will have a storage capacity of 20 MWh.

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Corporativa, I. (n.d.). Iberdrola builds the largest green hydrogen plant for industrial use in
Europe. https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/what-we-do/green-hydrogen/puertollano-
greenhydrogenplant#:~:text=The%20Puertollano%20(Spain)%20plant%20consists,All
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 3. SK energy & Doosan Fuel Cell, South Korea

Both companies plan to finish the demonstration of the production system that can generate
99.99% high-purity hydrogen, as well as the recharging facility, in the first half of 2023. After
that, they will establish a commercialized on-site hybrid energy station where both electric and
hydrogen vehicles can be charged simultaneously. A hydrogen charging station can generate
approximately 1 ton of hydrogen per day, which is enough to recharge 200 hydrogen passenger
cars or 30 hydrogen-powered trucks. At the same time.

The facility also has a lot of advantages, such as the miniaturization suitable for small on-site
stations, reduction of operation costs, efficient operation through automatic control, a high
recovery rate of hydrogen, and more. The technology that increases the purity of hydrogen to
99.99% is essential to charge hydrogen vehicles with the hydrogen generated by Tri-gen.

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SKinno news. (2022, November 21). SK Energy cooperates with Doosan Fuel Cell to build
hybrid energy stations to simultaneously utilize green energy and hydrogen. SK Innovation
Newsroom. https://skinnonews.com/global/archives/12036.
 4. Sinopec Star, China

China’s Sinopec Star has announced construction of what it claims will be the world's biggest
project using solar and wind power to produce green hydrogen.

The project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, will include 450MW of wind power and 270MW of solar
power generation for electrolysis, to produce 30,000 tonnes per year of green hydrogen. Plans
also include a hydrogen storage capacity of 288,000m3.

The Ordos project, where work began on 16 February, would take advantage of the “rich solar
and wind resources” in the region to “further expand the green-hydrogen-producing capacity of
China”.

The project will require electricity transmission networks and hydrogen and oxygen pipelines to
transport the hydrogen and oxygen produced to the Ordos coal deep processing demonstration
project.

Operated by Zhongtian Hechuang Energy, the Ordos coal-to-olefins project is a national

petroleum substitution strategy demonstration project to convert methanol to olefins. The
hydrogen and oxygen from the new electrolysis plant will be used to replace part of the coal-to-
hydrogen production.

(Figure 1.4)

Wood, J. (2023, March 2). China breaks ground on “world’s largest” hybrid green hydrogen
project. Windpower Monthly. https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1814907/china-
breaks-ground-worlds-largest-hybrid-green-hydrogen-project.