Chapter 662: Hydrogen Energy Explodes!
At present, Huaxia has begun to use fuel cells in large-scale fuel cell power stations, especially in the coal-rich areas of the central and western regions, and has begun to build large-scale fuel cell power stations to provide a large amount of power to coastal areas.
Because the construction cost of fuel cell power stations provided by Huaxing Group is lower than that of thermal power stations, and with the country's economic take-off, the country's demand for electricity has become increasingly tight, and now there is a boom in the construction of fuel cell power stations across the country.
Last year, 12 new fuel cell power stations were added across the country, with an installed capacity of more than 12,000 megawatts, and the core components of these fuel cell power stations were provided by Huaxing Group Corporation, which earned tens of billions of dollars from these projects.
At the same time, eight large-scale coal-to-hydrogen projects have also been launched in China, and the hydrogen production output is expected to exceed 8 million tons by next year, but it can only meet domestic demand.
As Huaxing Group reduced the price of fuel cells to 80 US dollars, various fuel cell vehicles in China are also showing an explosive growth, especially fuel cell motorcycles have a blowout, in the first half of this year, the production and sales of fuel cell motorcycles have exceeded five million, and fuel cell commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles are also soaring.
In order to meet the domestic demand for hydrogen energy, several coal-to-hydrogen projects have been launched this year.
At present, CNOOC and several domestic companies that provide hydrogen fuel now have to pay no less than 2 billion yuan in patent fees to Huaxing Group every year, but even so, these hydrogen fuel suppliers are making a lot of money, especially Huahai Oil is simply happy.
Because of the early layout, CNOOC now has the most complete hydrogen fuel filling station in the country, and now there is a roaring cash flow into CNOOC's pocket every day.
At present, the price of hydrogen fuel per liter is comparable to that of gasoline, and the domestic oil price is close to 4 yuan, while the domestic coal-to-hydrogen is 14 yuan per kilogram of hydrogen, and the cost price of hydrogen fuel for 100 liters is about 240 yuan, leaving a lot of profit margin for CNOOC.
In the past, CNOOC could not make so much money by extracting oil and gas from the bottom of the sea, and transformed into the field of hydrogen energy.
Now that the hydrogen energy project has become the main business of CNOOC, it has little interest in the exploitation of offshore oil and gas fields, and has basically stopped new offshore exploitation projects and turned to the exploration of offshore oil and gas fields.
Two barrels of oil see that domestic hydrogen energy has been replacing oil in a few years, and Huahaiyou, which has been weak before, is now transforming into a hydrogen energy giant.
Huaxing Group Company has a very close relationship with CNOOC, and the two barrels of oil did not look down on CNOOC before, and it also had a bad relationship with the central department in charge of new energy.
Now the new energy sector has been independently divided because of the outbreak of domestic hydrogen energy, belongs to the department directly under the central government, and has become a strong department, Vice Premier Zeng Jiabao, who was originally in charge of the new energy department, has now become one of the Standing Committee, two barrels of oil before a little disobedient, now it is not so easy to clamoring to enter hydrogen energy, and now two barrels of oil and the new energy department are there to fight.
The new energy department issued hydrogen energy licenses to Huahai, Huaxing Group and several domestic military enterprises and domestic automobile companies, but they were stuck and did not give two barrels of oil licenses, which was also a big trouble.
Before Rolls-Royce came, Chu Xionghuan, who had been promoted to the chairman of CNOOC, also met with Yang Jie, and now CNOOC's hydrogen fuel has also begun to be exported to the United States, Germany, Canada and other countries, so he naturally wants to say hello.
Originally, Yang Jie expected the outbreak of hydrogen energy to wait until seven or eight years later, but he didn't know that it only took five years for China to completely usher in a big explosion.
What's more, the core technology of these hydrogen energy is basically in the hands of Huaxing Group Company, so many of the huge commercial benefits obtained by the outbreak of hydrogen energy in China are left in China.
Rolls-Royce has done a lot about Huaxing Group and the situation of the domestic hydrogen energy outbreak in Huaxia in the near future, and these executives have secretly lamented in their hearts after learning about these situations that the UK has been left behind in this regard.
Britain is still very advanced in the traditional petrochemical and mechanical industries, but it has lagged behind in the field of hydrogen energy technology, and even countries like the United States have been left behind.
Although the United States is now vigorously developing hydrogen energy, it is amazing that these fuel cells and hydrogen fuels are basically supplied by Huaxia, which means that the United States has been held by Huaxia in hydrogen energy technology.
This one is very interesting.
Sara Poxon also did not expect that the Chinese Congress would usher in the explosion of hydrogen energy in such a short period of time, and form such a huge industrial scale, perhaps within ten years to reduce oil imports to a very low level, and at the same time get rid of the shackles of these traditional oil and energy giants overseas.
Hydrogen will replace fossil fuels as one of the main energy sources of human beings in the future, and the means of hydrogen production are not only coal to hydrogen, the use of solar energy to electrolysis hydrogen production is also one of the very important methods, and the conversion of free solar energy into electricity to produce hydrogen will also become one of the main means.
As a scientist, Sarah Poxon has clearly seen the technical layout and ambition of Huaxing Group in hydrogen energy, and at least five years ahead of other companies in hydrogen energy technology, that is to say, it will take at least so long for other companies to catch up with the current Huaxing Group, but Huaxing Group will not stop to sleep there, and the next generation of fuel cell technology may be mature by then.
Moreover, the advanced degree of Huaxing Group in motor technology is also staggering, and it has also reached the world's top level, which can increase the power density of the motor to the level of 5 kilowatts per kilogram!
How Huaxing Group Company did this is still a mystery, but this is no longer important, and the senior management of Rolls-Royce Company also determined that Rolls-Royce Company has no way to catch up in this regard, and their strategy of developing electric propulsion airliners is destined to be inseparable from Huaxing Group.
It was in this way that Rolls-Royce took the initiative to come over and ask for cooperation.
Yang Jie also wants to expand fuel cells in the aviation field, it is not enough to have Fokker alone, and the addition of Rolls-Royce will naturally accelerate the process, and it will be much easier for electric propulsion airliners to obtain EASA airworthiness certification in the future.
As for the American giants such as Pratt & Whitney and GE and Boeing, they are now hostile to Yonghan Aviation Technology and Fokker, as evidenced by the delay in obtaining FAA airworthiness certificates for fuel cells and motor-rotor systems.
Yang Jie is ready to give up the U.S. market in terms of electric propulsion product technology.