South Korea’s largest hydrogen production facility opened in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province
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South Korea’s largest hydrogen production facility opened in Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi Province. This facility, which cost 23 billion won (17.5 million dollars), will produce over 7 tons of hydrogen per day, enough to fuel 410,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles per year. This is the first facility of its kind in the capital region of South Korea, following the one that began operating in Changwon, the capital of South Gyeongsang Province, at the end of last year; it is also the second such facility in the entire country.
With the construction of hydrogen production complexes, Pyeonggi Province and Pyeongtaek City plan to build a hydrogen transportation complex near Pyeongtaek Port that is connected to hydrogen refueling stations, and to create a \"hydrogen city\" that relies on hydrogen as its primary energy source. The funds came from the private sector (8.15 billion won), the city** (7 billion won), the central government** (4.85 billion won), and the provincial government** (3 billion won). This integrated facility will produce hydrogen by reprocessing the natural gas supplied from the Pyeongtaek LNG receiving base (through a process of steam pyrolysis of natural gas). Starting in August, it is planned to produce up to 7 tons of hydrogen per day (about 2,450 tons per year). Most of the 33 hydrogen refueling stations currently in operation in the Seoul metropolitan area (20 in Gyeonggi Province, 7 in Seoul, and 6 in Incheon) receive hydrogen, on average, from remote areas such as Daejeon, Ulsan, and Jeonsu, which are over 120 kilometers away. As the completion of this complex will **reduce hydrogen transportation costs**, it is expected that hydrogen supply prices in the capital region will also drop.