Prospects of Renewable Hydrogen in China and Its Role in Industrial Decarbonization
Keywords: Green Hydrogen, Industrial Decarbonization, Energy Transition, Sino-German Energy Partnership | Study published: April 2023
The study "Prospects of Renewable Hydrogen in China and Its Role in Industrial Decarbonization" provides a comprehensive analysis of China's current status and potential in renewable hydrogen production, its critical role in decarbonizing industries, and comparisons between Chinese and German national hydrogen strategies. It aims to offer policy advice to support the development of a renewable hydrogen value chain in China, contributing to its climate neutrality goals.
Renewable hydrogen is an emerging carbon-neutral reducing agent in iron and steel manufacturing, and thus has potential to eliminate otherwise hard-to-abate CO2 emissions from steelmaking in China.
- Renewable hydrogen plays a pivotal role in achieving China's ambitious climate neutrality targets by decarbonizing high-emission industries.
- In order to better and faster establish a low-carbon hydrogen supply chain on an industrial scale, China should incentivize the continued growth of renewable hydrogen production capacity while fully utilizing the country's existing hydrogen production capacity from fossil fuels.
- Policymakers must balance energy security with long-term climate goals, learning from international best practices to foster a competitive hydrogen economy
The study is a result of the Climate and Energy Partnerships:
