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Looks like Mingyang won good chunk of the bid for CZ 500MW offshore wind turbine project which will be off the coast of Hainan.

It's 12km offshore at sea depth of 12 to 265.m covering area of 79.7 km2. To complete delivery by second half of this year.

China bid 19GW of offshore wind power in 2022, but not all of its installed, so expect huge bounce back in offshore wind in 2023.
Good chance wind installation exceed 75GW in 2023. Expecting offshore to increase 160% and onshore to increase over 60%

In December, Mingyang came out with 7.15MW and 8.5MW large onshore wind turbine geared for installation in desserts.
In January, it unveiled 18MW offshore wind turbine.

In their new smart new energy industrial park

投资50多亿元的明阳新能源智能制造产业园一期项目，经过9个月的“跑步”建设，年产1000台以上5-10MW系列的陆上超大型风电整机制造厂、年产1800片以上的碳玻混合超长叶片制造厂和年产1000台以上的中速永磁发电机制造厂去年年底同时竣工投产。作为风电机组的核心部件，明阳生产的风电叶片依靠防沙设计和一体化设计以及更高的发电率和更优的经济性，订单在市场占有率稳居行业前列

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With 5B RMB investment and after 9 months, they can produce over 1000 5 to 10 MW level onshore wind turbines and 1800 blade.

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Good thread on China's nuclear power development. He makes a lot of good points about the current challenges. Will be interesting to see given possible dangers associated with inland reactors.

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There is no major difference in danger level really. It is just that it typically is way cheaper to build them close to a large body of water. Instead of having to spend 2 years building an expensive cooling tower you just cool the reactor directly. Inland reactors are more expensive to build for that reason.

China's R&D on nuclear fusion energy is proceeding in an orderly manner & leading the world in some fields, said a political advisor, adding the country is targeted to generate the world's very first kWh of nuclear fusion-driven electricity..

New green ammonia project announced in Cangzhou, Hebei, which is close to Bohai sea.
it will produce 100k t of ammonia a year with some additional high purity Hydrogen sent to nearby hydrogen fueling station. Cost 18.8B RMB

This is interesting side affect of this

渤海新区着力打造中国北方重要合成材料生产基地。促进海洋精细化工产业发展，加快氯碱深加工产品、海洋高分子材料、海洋无机功能材料等新产品开发，发展海水淡化，浓海水制盐、提钾、提溴，加快锂镁分离提取技术的商业化应用。谋划和推进重大项目建设，加快推进“绿港氢城”新能源基地等重大产业项目前期工作，

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So not only synthetic material production base, but also Marin chemical industry, a bunch of materials, seawater desalination, salt production, potassium extraction, bromine extraction from sweater and commercialization of lithium & magnesium separation & extraction technology?

It's really amazing what we can harvest from the Ocean as we develop green technology.

Another large green ammonia projects, but this is Shaanxi Yulin for 200k t of ammonia a year at cost of 5.28B RMB

府谷县绿电制氢与年产20万吨绿氨及燃料电池产业研究院一体化示范项目计划投资52.8亿元，拟建设60000m³/h电解水制氢项目、一座500kg/日示范加氢站、20万吨/年绿色合成氨项目、燃料电池产业研究院及电池储能 系统制造等多个项目

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so not only ammonia, but also 60000m3/h of electrolyzer, 500kg/day of hydrogen fuel station and fuel cell industy research along with battery storage system.

A lot of solar power from rooftop panels:

supercat said:

A lot of solar power from rooftop panels:

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it just posted this last page. Can you please check when you post these things?
Same with the eVTOL link and others.

I'm really interested in the potential of offshore wind turbines. There's so many things you can do with gigawatts of power. Especially when robotics get good enough that you can run complex operations/factories without having to station humans in the middle of nowhere for months.

I can see automated floating fish farms/green houses, floating hydrogen/hydrocarbon generating stations, desalination plants, seawater extraction of various elements etc etc, all tethered to a turbine and making use of their power during off peak periods. I can also see some wind turbines being used to host things like radar/sonar/various sensors, satellite internet/5G stations, they can act as traffic controllers for ships and drones.

They could be used as resupply hubs for ships. Instead of stopping at a busy port, you just sail to a wind farm, top up on food, fresh water and whatever hydrocarbon fuel that you need.

Maybe not the right topic for this thread, but their potential for military use is also staggering. They're big, numerous and extremely tall. I can see them hosting radar/sonar and a powerful data link. Or hiding missiles/drones within the tower or generator hub, just a few dozen in a field of hundreds. They can be a hundred kilometers out, so I could see situations where it's advantageous for a fleet to resupply at a wind farm instead of heading back to port. Diesel-electric submarines could get a massive range boost if there's a way to stealthy recharge their batteries via hooking itself to a wind turbine.

A lot of green H2 related updates.

300 million RMB investment devoted by longi into a new Xian high tech zone for hydrogen technology. It will be doing R&D and production of electrolyzer. And push forward core tech breakthroughs of hydrogen energy.

a hydrogen transport truck with 300 kg of hydrogen drove to Zhongyuan refinery (I think). Since putting into service in Dec 25th, this has been producing hydrogen for 60 days. Within 5 years, they will build a green H2 supply center here with annual production of 4500t Green hydrogen to promote scale, efficiency & industrialization of H2 industry.

Another green hydrogen project with 250MW solar capacity that can produce 6000t of green H2 project will be put into operation in Inner Mongolia. This came at cost of 1.62 billion RMB.

A longer article here to talk about Longi's path to lower LOCH for hydrogen. As I said before, Longi got really good really fast. It has joined the fray very late and is already a leader in efficiency and production.
It delivered 16 electrolyzer equipment to sinopec in October and received a stamp of approval from Sinopec for their major project. Again, really good.

Keep in mind that this is the year 0 of Green H2 expansion in China (for sinopec at least). Things will only accelerate from this point onward. Feel like EVs a few years ago or wind/solar 10 years ago. We are getting to the point where Green H2 economics will be a lot better in the coming years. This is a project that you have to win if you are China.

Tornadoes touch down 2x in California in 2 months.

They are building a pure hydrogen pipeline from Kubuqi to Baotou/Linhe gas pipeline. And this will send green H2 produced in SPIC/Huaneng's solar H2 plant to Baosteel's green H2 steel plant

Baosteel has been building low carbon metallurgical solution

China is quickly building up hydrogen pipeline from inner Mongolia (where most of the H2 is produced) to where they get used.