Saudi Arabia’s energy firm, ACWA Power and Chinese firm PowerChina have initiated works for the first green hydrogen plant in Central Asia.
Dwelling further on details of the plant, the firms said, the plant in Uzbekistan will produce 3,000 metric tons per year of green hydrogen and will be powered by a wind farm. The hydrogen will be used to produce 500,000 tons per year of ammonia fertiliser, replacing 33 million cubic meters of natural gas.
PowerChina, the general contractor for the project, said, “It was the company’s first overeas green hydrogen project and also the first in Central Asia to reach the implementation stage.”
It further noted that the plant was an important energy project within China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI).
China has a target to produce 100,000 to 200,000 tons per year of green hydrogen, which is key to decarbonising heavy industry sectors such as steelmaking, cement and fertilisers.
It may be noted that in September, ACWA Power Chairman Mohammad Abunayyan signed MOUs with state-owned China Southern Power Grid and wind turbine maker Mingyang Smart Energy to cooperate on clean energy technologies.
Also, ACWA Power, has signed Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Energy China Group Corporation (CEEC) for a solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the month of June this year.
