Hydrogen energy industry thrives in Zhangjiagang, Eastern China

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A hydrogen refueling station in Zhangjiagang, east China's Jiangsu province.

Hydrogen energy industry thrives in Zhangjiagang in E China

People's Daily | March 28, 2025

In Zhangjiagang city, Jiangsu province, a region with a robust manufacturing foundation in eastern China, a comprehensive hydrogen industry ecosystem encompassing production, storage, transportation, and application is rapidly emerging and expanding.

The city routinely deploys hydrogen-powered tractors in port operations and hydrogen-fueled buses across urban road networks. Meanwhile, integrated hydrogen-solar smart microgrids have evolved into innovative "power bank" systems that deliver renewable energy solutions.

As a clean energy carrier, hydrogen demonstrates versatile applications in transportation and chemical industries, effectively reducing reliance on fossil fuels like gasoline, diesel and coal. When employed for large-scale, long-duration and seasonal energy storage, it further serves as a critical stabilizer for balancing power grid supply-demand dynamics.

In February, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, along with seven other government bodies, jointly issued an action plan to promote high-quality development of the new energy storage sector, explicitly advocating accelerated research into ultra-long-duration hydrogen storage technologies...

...Beyond public transit, the city has integrated hydrogen technology across multiple sectors, deploying five hydrogen-powered port tractors, 65 hydrogen-fueled heavy-duty trucks, and more than 500 hydrogen-assisted bicycles. These innovations now operate seamlessly within port facilities, urban thoroughfares, and residential neighborhoods...more
http://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0328/c90000-20295426.html

China Is Outspending the U.S. to Achieve the ‘Holy Grail’ of Clean Energy
Wall Street Journal - U.S. vs. China

[Think. Again.]

1. K&R

China will be the next energy kingdom.

It could have been the U.S., but it's too late for that now.

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2. Hydrogen, to repeat for the thousandth time, is made in China from dangerous fossil fuels by steam reforming.

In China, as in most places on the planet, it's a filthy fuel.

Subsidizing Grid-Based Electrolytic Hydrogen Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Coal Dominated Power Systems Liqun Peng, Yang Guo, Shangwei Liu, Gang He, and Denise L. Mauzerall Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (12), 5187-5195

The text is clear enough.

From the introductory text:

... Currently, nearly all hydrogen in China is either produced directly from fossil fuels (55% from coal gasification and 14% from steam methane reforming (SMR)) or as a byproduct of petroleum refining (28%), with only 1% coming from water electrolysis. (2) Producing 1 kg of coal- or SMR-based hydrogen emits roughly 19 and 10 kg of CO2, respectively. (3) In 2020, hydrogen production from fossil fuels in China emitted ∼322Tg of CO2, equivalent to 25% of total CO2 emissions from industrial processes, a number expected to rise with increasing hydrogen demand. (4) Industrial processes include production of nonmetallic mineral products, chemical, and metal products, as well as production and consumption of halocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. (4)

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The bold, italics and underlining is mine.

EST: Chinese Hydrogen Production Is Making Climate Change Worse.

Calling hydrogen "clean," particularly in China, where it responsible for the release of 322 million tons of CO₂, dominated by the steam reforming of coal, according to the paper cited above, is a fucking lie.