Transitioning China’s Industries: Creating Clusters for Large-scale Green Hydrogen Integration

This executive summary describes a proposed "cluster development" model designed to scale the integration of green hydrogen within China's industrial sector, which is the country's largest hydrogen consumer. The model aims to overcome challenges related to supply stability and high costs by optimizing the alignment of production and consumption through a "production-storage-transportation-utilization" system.

• The industrial sector is the primary driver of hydrogen demand in China, accounting for approximately 60 percent of total consumption and is projected to maintain this dominance.
• Large-scale industrial adoption of green hydrogen is hindered by two primary obstacles: the need for a stable, significant scale of supply and the high costs associated with hydrogen utilization.
• The proposed "cluster development" model seeks to optimize economic and technical feasibility by aligning production and consumption. It utilizes a "production-storage-transportation-utilization" system and provides implementation methods for two specific scenarios: where supply and utilization are co-located and where they are in different locations.

APA

RMI (2024). Transitioning China’s Industries: Creating Clusters for Large-scale Green Hydrogen Integration. https://rmi.org/resources/transitioning-chinas-industries-2/

Chicago

RMI. Transitioning China’s Industries: Creating Clusters for Large-scale Green Hydrogen Integration. 2024. https://rmi.org/resources/transitioning-chinas-industries-2/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2024transitioning, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Transitioning China’s Industries: Creating Clusters for Large-scale Green Hydrogen Integration}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2024}, month = sep, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/transitioning-chinas-industries-2/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }