China News Service, Chongqing, October 29 (Jing Shiyan) The Xinjiang-Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle pilot city cluster work deployment meeting for comprehensive application of hydrogen energy was held in Chongqing on the 29th, marking that the pilot work has entered the implementation stage.
The Xinjiang-Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle pilot city cluster for comprehensive application of hydrogen energy (hereinafter referred to as the "pilot city cluster") involves Chongqing, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Gansu, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and other places, covering 13 cities including Chongqing, Chengdu, Hami, and Jiuquan.
The industrial by-product hydrogen in the pilot city clusters is gathered, relying on the industrial base of coal chemical industry, petrochemical industry, chlor-alkali chemical industry, etc., with an annual supply scale of about 400,000 tons; the existing green hydrogen production capacity reaches 22,000 tons/year, and the theoretical reserves of wind and solar resources exceed 10 billion kilowatts, and there is huge room for tapping the potential of green hydrogen supply. In addition, the urban agglomeration has gathered more than 300 market entities and scientific research institutions, including Dongfang Hydrogen Energy, Houpu Co., Ltd., Qingling Group, and MCC CCID, to connect the entire industrial chain of hydrogen energy production, storage, and application.
Chongqing is the leading city in this pilot project. At the meeting, the Chongqing Municipal Economic and Information Commission introduced that the pilot city clusters will work together to solve key blocking points such as north-south resource coordination, linkage of production and consumption cycles, corridor network connectivity, full-chain technological innovation, and hydrogen carbon value conversion, and strive to use the four-year pilot period to initially form a "sufficient supply of clean energy and industrial hydrogen use". An industrial ecosystem with good consumption, smooth zero-carbon transportation network, and high hydrogen-carbon value conversion will achieve the four major goals of basically building an important national hydrogen source production area, basically building a national green hydrogen coupled cycle benchmark area, basically building a national zero-carbon transportation intensive area, and basically building a national hydrogen energy industry innovation source area.
During the 4-year pilot period, the pilot urban agglomeration will accelerate the construction of a joint working mechanism with 3 responsible cities taking the lead in empowerment and 10 participating cities in collaborative supporting facilities. It will closely adhere to the general policy of "mutual assistance between the north and the south, mutual integration of supply and consumption, interconnection of corridors, and hydrogen and carbon complementarity", and integrate the four core links of "energy supply guarantee end, industrial consumption end, transportation network end, and value innovation end" to coordinate the development of northern resource-based urban agglomerations. The advantages of green hydrogen supply and large-scale industrial application scenarios, the advantages of high-end equipment industry in southern manufacturing urban agglomerations and the carbon market platform, the cross-provincial collaboration between the north and the south to integrate multiple types of clean energy resource endowments, the cross-sector integration of industry and transportation to expand the boundaries of hydrogen energy's diverse application scenarios, and the innovative market-driven mechanism model through hydrogen-carbon cross-point linkage, systematically plan and promote the comprehensive application of hydrogen energy in the entire region.
