Chinese electrolyser maker Sungrow wins tender for 'world's largest green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol project'
Industry newsChinese electrolyser maker Sungrow Hydrogen says it has won the tender for the world’s largest integrated green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol project — a $4.1bn facility in Jilin, China, that is expected to produce 110,000 tonnes of H2, 600,000 tonnes of green ammonia and 60,000 tonnes of green methanol annually.
China Energy Engineering Corporation’s (CEEC) Songyuan Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park will use Sungrow’s alkaline electrolyers to produce the H2, although the exact size of the order has not been revealed.
In September last year, it was reported by Chinese media that the 29.6bn-yuan ($4.1bn) project had already begun construction, and that it would use 640MW of electrolysers — powered by 750MW of wind power and 50MW of solar — to produce 45,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually, which would then be converted into 200,000 tonnes of green ammonia and 20,000 tonnes of green methanol a year.
But according to a press release from Sungrow, those production capacity figures have more or less trebled, but the overall cost of the project remains the same. Sungrow’s figures suggest a project size in excess of 1GW. It is not unusual for Chinese electrolyser makers to announce orders in terms of expected output, rather than megawatts.
It has also not been revealed how the hydrogen, ammonia and methanol from the project will be used.
The world’s largest completed green hydrogen project is Sinopec’s 260MW facility in Kuqa, Xinjiang province, but that crown will be taken by the under-construction 2.2GW Neom green hydrogen project in Saudi Arabia, which is due to begin operations in 2026.
Sungrow has 1.5GW of annual manufacturing capacity at its factory in Hefei, Anhui province, but last November it announced plans to expand that to 3GW — and that the expansion would be completed in the first half of 2024.