Pohang Blue Valley National Industrial Complex 20MW scale…
On the 20th, Gyeongsangbuk-do announced at Pohang City Hall that Gyeongbuk-do, Pohang City, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Yeongnam Energy Service, and Pohang Technopark signed a MOU for mutual cooperation to promote the Pohang Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Generation Project.
The agreement was attended by Seong-jo Kang, Vice-Governor of Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, Pohang Mayor Lee Kang-deok, President of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Plant, Jae-Hoon Jung, CEO of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Gyeongnam Lee, CEO of Yeongnam Energy Service, Pohang Technopark Lee, Hee-Sik Lee, Vice Chairman and Provincial Council of Provincial Council Kim Hee-soo, and Pohang City Chairman Jeong Hae-jong.
This project is a plan to build a 20MW, 100 billion won hydrogen fuel cell power plant in the Pohang Blue Valley National Industrial Complex in connection with the hydrogen fuel cell power generation cluster, and is directly invested and operated by KHNP. It is a fuel cell power generation project directly managed by KHNP, a participant in the’Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Generation Cluster Construction Project’.
As an institutional role, Gyeongbuk Province and Pohang City support the administration of hydrogen fuel cell power generation projects such as licensing and resident cooperation, while KHNP secures technology for building, operating, and maintaining power plants. Yeongnam Energy Service will support city gas supply and related infrastructure, and Pohang Techno Park will support manpower and equipment for securing O&M technology and nurturing manpower as the leading organization of the cluster project.
Through this, fuel cell utilization and maintenance technology can be established for power generation, and a curriculum for training human resources can be established to improve fuel cell utilization. Efficiency improvement can lead to the spread of fuel cells in Korea. In addition, this project includes the investment of’Social Social Overhead Capital (SOC)’, which supplies city gas to rural areas, helping to improve the lives of local residents and create jobs.
The government plans to propose a new establishment of the mandatory fuel cell system (HPS) for power generation through the’Hydrogen Economy Committee’ in October 2020 and establish a stable fuel cell supply system. It is expected to achieve the 8GW fuel cell target by 2040 through the HPS system and create an investment of 25 trillion won over the next 20 years.
In the meantime, Gyeongbuk Province has built a fuel cell test bed (14.2 billion won), selected as a public proposal for a preliminary feasibility study of the government’s hydrogen fuel cell power generation cluster (270 million won), a hydrogen fuel cell certification center construction project (1.8 billion won), and a new certification center to support construction The hydrogen industry has been promoted by securing the national budget (10 billion won) and selecting the hydrogen industry convergence manpower training contest (4.3 billion won). In February this year, the government plans to promote the’hydrogen fuel cell power generation cluster construction project (234 billion won)’ as a preliminary feasibility project to create the foundation for the government’s hydrogen economy.
Gyeongbuk-do Governor Kang Seong-jo said, “It is a new start in the fuel cell field where the national hydrogen economy develops and the local community co-exists,” and “By linking the construction of a hydrogen fuel cell power plant in the Blue Valley industrial complex and a hydrogen fuel cell power generation cluster, We will try to be reborn as a mecca of the fuel cell industry.”
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