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Limits RegistryThe Kuqa plant supplies hydrogen to a nearby Sinopec oil refinery, displacing hydrogen that would otherwise be produced from natural gas or coal (a carbon-intensive process) and demonstrating green hydrogen's use in decarbonizing existing industrial demand rather than only new applications. Sinopec has reported the facility took longer than initially planned to ramp toward its full rated capacity, illustrating the operational challenges of matching intermittent solar output to continuous industrial hydrogen demand.
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The Kuqa plant supplies hydrogen to a nearby Sinopec oil refinery, displacing hydrogen that would otherwise be produced from natural gas or coal (a carbon-intensive process) and demonstrating green hydrogen's use in decarbonizing existing industrial demand rather than only new applications. Sinopec has reported the facility took longer than initially planned to ramp toward its full rated capacity, illustrating the operational challenges of matching intermittent solar output to continuous industrial hydrogen demand.
Sinopec's Kuqa green hydrogen project in Xinjiang, China, entered production in 2023 with a designed annual capacity of 20,000 tonnes of hydrogen produced via water electrolysis powered by roughly 300 MW of dedicated solar generation and 260 MW of electrolyzer capacity, making it the largest green hydrogen production facility in operation at the time.
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Limits Registry. LR-SINOPEC-KUQA-GREEN-HYDROGEN. Sinopec Kuqa — largest operating green hydrogen production plant. 2026.