Announcement of the winning bidder for the preliminary design of the CGN New Energy Wind-Solar Hydrogen Production Integration Project in Balin Left Banner, Inner Mongolia

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Announcement regarding the winning bidder for the hydrogen production portion of Inner Mongolia’s green methanol project. On May 22, the list of preferred bidders for the preliminary design of CGN New Energy’s integrated wind, solar, and hydrogen production project in Balin Left Banner, Inner Mongolia was announced. The top preferred bidder is PowerChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited; its bid amount was 5.22 million yuan. Project scale: This project is the CGN Balin Zuoqi wind-solar hydrogen production integrated project, which includes a wind farm, a hydrogen production facility, interconnection lines, and transmission systems. The wind power generation capacity is 500MW, while the hydrogen production facility’s capacity is 46,000 Nm3/h. It is reported that the CGN Balin Left Banner Green Methanol Project was approved in December 2023. It includes the construction of 38 alkaline water electrolysis units, each with a capacity of 1,350 Nm3/h. The annual production capacity of green methanol is expected to reach 200,000 tons. In June 2024, China Ship Fuel signed a strategic cooperation agreement on integrated production and sales for a project aimed at producing 200,000 tons of green methanol per year in Balinzuoqi, with CGN New Energy and COSCO Marine Logistics Supply Chain. China Ship Fuel is responsible for the utilization of green methanol products, which are used as fuel for ocean-going freighters ； COSCO Shipping Logistics Supply Chain is responsible for the transportation and warehousing of green methanol. In February 2025, CGN New Energy’s 500,000-kilowatt wind power-based hydrogen and methanol production project in Balin Zuoqi, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, procured biomass pellets and carbonization services. This project is the third to use the process of biomass carbonization → biocoal → advanced gasification for methanol production in order to manufacture green methanol. In June 2025, the project conducted a demonstration and verification of the gasification after biomass carbonization.