Sinopec starts world's largest green hydrogen plant

Construction began on Tuesday on the world's largest green hydrogen project, generated from solar energy, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to aid China's move toward sustainable energy, said its operator China Petroleum and Chemical Corp.

The project is also China's first 10,000-ton level solar-generated green hydrogen demonstration project. With a total investment of around 3 billion yuan ($470 million), it is expected to produce 20,000 tons of green hydrogen annually after being put into operation in 2023.

The project is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 485,000 tons each year and help further facilitate China's efforts to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, said the domestic oil giant, also known as Sinopec, the world's top refiner by capacity.