Hydrogen production potential from wind power in China by 2060

Green hydrogen will play an important role in China's process of achieving carbon neutrality goals. This study systematically evaluated China's potential for hydrogen production from wind power until 2060. The results show that China has a combined land and sea area of approximately 5.40 million km² that is available for wind power generation, with a total installed capacity of 14.68 TW for wind-based hydrogen production, which can produce 712.86 million tons/year of hydrogen at the technological level of 2020. With the gradual improvement in the conversion efficiency of water electrolysis, it can increase to 902.96 million tons/year by 2060, which is equivalent to 6.94–10.04 times China's total hydrogen demand in that year. In terms of the spatial distribution, China's wind power potential is mainly concentrated in the five provinces of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet, Gansu and offshore, and their hydrogen production potential accounts for 86.82 % of China's total.