Jeonnam bids for $1.9 billion National Hydrogen Complex

In the UK, Fuel Cells Works reported that South Korea’s Jeonnam Province has formally applied to the national government for $1.9 billion in state subsidies to build what it says would be the largest clean hydrogen production complex in the country.

The proposed facility would begin with a 500MW electrolyzer installation and expand to 1GW, powered by both carbon-free nuclear energy from the 5.2GW Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant — the only one on Korea’s southwest coast — and the region’s abundant renewable energy resources. 

“The aim is to produce economically viable and stable clean hydrogen using carbon-free electricity, and to create a full-cycle hydrogen ecosystem — from production, storage, and transport to utilization,” said Jeong Hyun-gu, director of Jeonnam’s Energy Industry Bureau. “Clean hydrogen is a key energy that will determine national industrial competitiveness in the carbon-neutral era… We will grow Jeonnam into a central clean hydrogen industry cluster and a new growth engine for the next hundred years.”

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