• Chinese electrolyzer makers have gone on to ship a minimum of 321.25 MW globally in the first half of 2026, which is a rise from 18.5 MW that was witnessed in 2025. This is a 17-fold jump, or more than 1,600%, throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.
• Chinese domestic bidding also jumped 35.74% to 1,121 MW, and Norway’s HydrogenPro just closed its own 500 MW China plant to produce on rival LONGi’s lines – just as electrolyzer sector of Europe basically surrendered the manufacturing race.

It is worth noting that the electrolyzer story of China has moved under the radar from growing exports to global takeover. Publicly available shipment data shows that overseas shipments of Chinese-made electrolyzers from the Chinese electrolyzer makers hit no less than 321.25 MW in the H1 of 2026, which is a rise from only 18.5 MW in the same period in 2025. This represents an approximate 17-fold leap, or more than 1,600%, year on year, throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.

Apparently, the domestic Chinese market is also booming. Publicly announced electrolyzer bids were for 46 projects having an overall installed capacity of around 1,188.05 MW in H1 2026, which is a 35.74% year-on-year growth.

Winning bids, which include the direct signings, were 1,121.05 MW. Alkaline electrolyzers – ALK took a total dominant 92.6% of the order scale, PEM 2.46%, and AEM 0.13%. Chinese hydrogen equipment is growing on the very technology where it has the greatest price advantage.

This is not some hypothetical pipeline. By the end of March 2026, the renewable hydrogen production capacity of China under construction was over 1 million tonnes/year, with over 250,000 tonnes/year of finished and operational projects, which is more than double the end-2024 figure – as well as more than 900,000 tonnes/year, which is still under construction, according to the National Energy Administration.

Deal that helps anchor the trend

H1 2026 export book looks like an atlas of everywhere that hydrogen is attempting to take place –

• Middle East – Sungrow Hydrogen – Sunshine Hydrogen has signed a 2025 agreement with the ACME Group from India so as to supply multiple 1,000 Nm³/h ALK units for a 320 MW green ammonia project in Oman. In March 2026, Shuangliang Energy Saving provided 16 hydrogen production systems to ACME Oman for its 300-tonne green ammonia project. In 2025, Power China Hydrogen signed 18 projects, of which foreign business represented 60%.
• Europe – 160 MW of cooperation with Spain when it comes to Trimogen Hydrogen. LONGi Hydrogen inked a 1 GW strategic OEM agreement with HydrogenPro Envision Energy from Norway and shipped its three MW-class units in a bulk shipment to Europe.
• South Asia – Guofu Hydrogen has signed a contract worth US$5.1m with Advait of India, and the joint-venture plant of the duo has produced its first 5 MW electrolyzer.

With these deals, Chinese electrolyzers are no longer a Chinese product but a global one. In parallel, the Uzbekistan project marks the first international deployment of a 1,000 Nm³/h “Four-in-One” system from LONGI, supplying ACWA Power’s 3,000-tonne-a-year pilot with PowerChina Huadong.

The Turbocharged Standard Policy

Two Chinese policy moves in 2025 and 2026 strengthened the domestic base despite the export push. In May 2025, the National Development and Reform Commission as well as the National Energy Administration issued the Notice on Matters Related to the Orderly Promotion of the Direct Development of Green Power, which allows the direct supply of green power to hydrogen consumers via direct lines, which is a mechanism that offers resource-rich areas a major cost advantage as far as green hydrogen is concerned.

In March 2026, MIIT, the Ministry of Finance, as well as NDRC, jointly conducted an extensive hydrogen application test in 5 urban agglomerations, which included green ammonia, fuel cell vehicles, methanol, hydrogen chemical feedstocks, and hydrogen metallurgy, as well as hydrogen-doped combustion.

Then, on June 25, 2026, the NDRC and NEA released the 15th Five-Year Plan for the Construction of a New Energy System, which targeted a renewable hydrogen production volume of 2 million tonnes/year by 2030, which is about 7 times the end-of-Q1 2026 number. This is the demand curve under everything above.

As per Changjiang Securities, the hydrogen industry enters the period of technology-cost to scale-cost reduction in the 15th Five-Year Plan between 2026 and 2030, and deep green hydrogen will penetrate the industrial demand side. Their triggering point is when green hydrogen drops to ¥8-10/kg or US$1.10-1.40 and carbon prices climb to ¥100/tonne or US$13.70, making hydrogen metallurgy and green ammonia locally economic, transforming the entire sector from being policy-driven to economics-based.

The Deal That Speaks the Quiet Part Pretty Loud

The most interesting transaction in H1 2026 cannot be found in the export figures. This was the case at HydrogenPro.

On 13 May 2026, the Norwegian electrolyzer maker said it was putting its own 500 MW factory in Tianjin on ice, which is a plant it took full ownership of in November 2025 in a $650,000 deal and would instead make on the Chinese lines of LONGi in a joint OEM agreement giving HydrogenPro immediate accessibility when it comes to 1 GW of capacity.

CFO Martin Holtet flagged that the move is expected to deliver over NOK 20m, or $2.2m, in terms of annual savings, on top of European salary freezes, management reductions in wages, and short-term job cuts.

A Norwegian electrolyzer maker abandoned a planned China plant to make on the assembly line of a Chinese rival. HydrogenPro will continue to utilize its proprietary technology, and is going to put together European-bound systems in Germany with Andritz, the EPC partner bu the metal, the manufacturing, and the volume are sourced from LONGi. Access to a more computerized facility with fewer operators per electrolyzer was the way CEO Jarle Dragvik described it. This is diplomatic for – we are unable to construct these things as well as they are capable of, and we have quit pretending that we can.

Notably, in 2024, LONGi had already invested NOK 70m or $7.62m in HydrogenPro.

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The facility, which is a single off-grid ecosystem comprising a 5 MWp solar park and a 5 MW PEM electrolyser as well as 5.9 MWh battery storage, was inaugurated in September 2025.

CMB.TECH has become its own first client, using the hydrogen for dual-fuel trucks, generators and the first hydrogen-powered freight locomotive of Namibia, with goals to expand to 250 MW and then 500 MW of solar capacity and thereafter eventually export ammonia to Europe.

It is well to be noted that the hydrogen projects which are getting headlines in Africa tend to be massive, years away and packed with caveats. There is nothing which will match it, especially when we talk of CMB.TECH facility at Farm 58 in Walvis Bay, as the facility is small, it is running, and it is making green hydrogen as of now.

The facility and what it does

The site integrates three systems – a 5 MWp solar park that covers 6.5 hectares and contains approximately 7,000 panels, along with a 5 MW proton exchange membrane electrolyzer which uses only solar electricity in order to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, along with a 5.9 MWh battery energy storage system that enables electrolyzer to operate when the sun is not at its peak.

The entire facility is off-grid, therefore it does not require being connected to the national electricity network in Namibia.

Walvis Bay boasts some of the best solar resources on the continent, with around 300 days of sun every year. Hydrogen is generated on site, then compressed and then stored on site for use right away.

Apparently, the facility is a living lab when it comes to integrated hydrogen economy, the Chief Technology Officer at CMB.TECH, Roy Campe, said. He added that “the facility includes a solar-powered off-grid electrolyser for renewable hydrogen production, a refuelling station for hydrogen-powered vehicles and industrial applications, and an on-site Hydrogen Academy for local talent development.”

A hub that makes use of what it makes

The key structural characteristic of the Walvis Bay project, the first fully integrated green hydrogen hub in Africa is that CMB.TECH itself is its first customer. Green hydrogen produced on site powers dual-fuel trucks and generators, as well as off-road equipment, and Namibia’s first hydrogen-powered freight locomotive program is indeed part of the bigger plan. A hydrogen-powered harbour vessel under construction in the Netherlands is also going to be operating at Walvis Bay.

This is significant since the graveyard when it comes to global green hydrogen projects is mostly filled with facilities that spent big on production without an offtaker. CMB.TECH addressed that issue by being their own buyer from day one.

The longer-term strategy includes an ammonia terminal at the North Port in Walvis Bay that produces marine fuel by mixing hydrogen with nitrogen taken from the air, along with a gigawatt-scale solar hydrogen and ammonia plant located at Arandis, further into the Namib desert where the energy level of the sun is even higher. The total estimated investment throughout every stage is $3.5 billion.

Siemens as an integration layer

It is worth noting that Siemens supplied the integrated electrical, automation and safety infrastructure in order to coordinate the solar, electrolyzer, battery and refuelling systems. The CEO of Siemens Sub-Saharan Africa, Sabine Dall’Omo, was blunt about what this project shows. He says that “Africa’s first fully integrated green hydrogen facility demonstrates that large-scale clean energy production is not a future ambition but a present-day reality.” She further added that “The CMB.TECH plant can only deliver on its promise if all technologies operate seamlessly as one. That is where Siemens makes the decisive difference.”

The human story

Of the 25 employees, 24 are Namibian and have been trained using the on-site Hydrogen Academy, which works with local universities as well as the Namibia Institute for Mining Technology. According to Johannes Shimbilinga, the Walvis Bay Mayor, “the training programme is creating a sustainable pipeline of local expertise, positioning Namibia as an exporter of not just green molecules, but also the technical knowledge required to operate and maintain a hydrogen economy.”

Next steps

Campe is straightforward about the goal. He opines that the next step is to increase capacity to 250 MW, then to 500. We want to turn Namibia into a global energy hub and export energy to Europe and the rest of the world. Today we have 7,000 solar panels. In the future, there could be millions.”

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The agreement was concluded at the India-Japan Investment Meet-2026, where over 200 Japanese delegates were in the country for investment talks and cultural exchanges at various places in Lucknow as well as Varanasi.

Interestingly, a 200-strong Japanese delegation has concluded a visit to Uttar Pradesh, signing a string of agreements, with the most notable among them being the tying up of the renewable energy agency of the state with Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan when it comes to green hydrogen cooperation.

The MoU and its coverage

Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency – UPNEDA entered into the MOU with Yamanashi, using the technological expertise of Japan and Yamanashi’s innovation framework, as Uttar Pradesh aims to establish a more solid foundation in green energy technologies by means of research, development of skills, and industry linkages.

Kotaro Nagasaki, the Yamanashi governor, said the collaboration will focus on green hydrogen and energy security. Both sides were eager to partner with Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, on projects that could support economic growth while also helping achieve larger global goals, he said. Nagasaki said that cooperation in energy could also help foster world peace.

The backdrop for the investment meet

It is worth noting that the MoU was one of many signed in the course of the India-Japan Investment Meet-2026 in Lucknow that saw Japanese businesses and officials coming together with the UP government to explore a spectrum of emerging sectors. The agreement reached on green hydrogen is the most technically precise pledge to come out of the event.

Varanasi being the platform

Delegation also went to Sarnath and witnessed the Ganga Aarti at Namo Ghat. Governor Nagasaki also took approximately 15 notable members of the delegation to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, where they performed prayers. The devotees chanted Har Har Mahadev to greet the Japanese visitors, and the participants of the delegation too joined in, demonstrating cultural connection between both the countries.

The cultural aspect of the visit – the backdrop of Varanasi’s Buddhist and Hindu heritage sites against economic diplomacy is indeed a deliberate combination of investment cooperation with people-to-people ties. The UP-Yamanashi partnership is part of a more extensive and fast-growing India-Japan hydrogen cooperation pattern when it comes to the national and sub-national levels.

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Combined green ammonia production complex in Chile

The development will include a process plant so as to produce ammonia from green hydrogen as well as a seawater desalination plant which will provide water for hydrogen production as well as the rest of the facilities. The project comes in amid a number of hydrogen-related projects which are experiencing calendar delays in Europe, whereas other players still are chasing acquisitions in the wind sector, like the purchase of an onshore project in Romania.

The complex also goes on to include a 1.4 gigawatt wind farm with 194 turbines in order to supply the required electricity and a port that has facilities for storage and export of ammonia by sea and also for receipt of project components as well as parts.

Cumulative jobs at 7,000, timeline extending to 2084

The Green Ammonia Production Complex in Chile will create up to 3,998 jobs during construction, 1,777 during operation and 1,110 during closure, for a total of 6,885 jobs throughout the three phases, the report said. The filing says the plan includes two camps to accommodate personnel who need housing at the site, referred to as camp 1,000 and camp 3,000.

The project closure is scheduled to start in the H1 of 2083 and complete in the second half of 2084, with landform restoration as the last step. The report will be sent to the municipalities of Punta Arenas and San Gregorio as well as Laguna Blanca for their comments.

SEA confirms the corrections made by the project owner

Given the size of the project, it was considered for multiple categories of evaluation, such as substations, high-voltage transmission lines, generating plants over 3 megawatts, maritime terminals, submarine outfalls, and industrial facilities over 2,000 kVA, as well as aggregate extraction projects. The holder of the project included voluntary environmental commitments during the review, such as the development of interpretive viewpoints known as Aikes, along with the active management of the cultural heritage of the Estancia San Gregorio Typical Zone, in addition to the vibration monitoring in its structures. Additional responsibilities include a road management plan, encouragement of local hiring, a program of socio-labour best practices and surveillance of birds by means of carcass surveys surrounding the turbines.

It is well to be noted that the SEA recommendation was based on the fact that the project holder rectified the errors, oversights, and mistakes identified during the assessment; that the project is in compliance with relevant environmental laws and industry permit guidelines and that it takes into account the impacts set out according to Article 11 of Law No. 19,300 that prompted the obligation for an Environmental Impact Study. The report also says the project will be constructed in phases – a second phase, involving a further wind farm of around 2.1 gigawatts, will be regarded as another project in the future in order to supply the complementary energy the plant requires to function at its maximum production capacity.

The time limit agencies with environmental authority to sign off on the Consolidated Evaluation Report is August 24, as per the notice issued by the SEA. Among those that already conveyed their view is the National Geology and Mining Service – Sernageomin of Magallanes, which disclosed no observations.

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The bunkering ceremony at Shanghai Yangshan Port was themed “Green Fuelled Globe, Lead the Future.”

It is worth noting that the Taonan green methanol project from Shanghai Electric was the main supplier of biomethanol for this operation. The operation constitutes a major breakthrough not just in terms of supply volume but also demonstrates that the Taonan project is entering stable production along with large-scale delivery.

Apparently, this success is built on the back of a fully interconnected interprovincial green fuel supply chain. Shanghai, Jilin, and Liaoning jointly built a green fuel transportation corridor that had been officially launched at the Shanghai International Shipping Green Fuel Sustainable Development Conference on June 30, 2026.

It also goes on to establish a north-to-south methanol shipment route, with production at the Taonan project in Jilin, transportation and storage at Dalian Port, and ultimate bunkering at Shanghai Port.

As the fundamental production capacity base of the transportation corridor, the Shanghai Electric Taonan Green Methanol Project makes use of the abundant local wind and solar resources along with the biomass feedstock of Jilin. The facility is the first large-scale plant in the world to produce biomethanol through the combination of green electricity and biomass, with independently designed full-set process systems as well as core equipment. It meets the ship bunkering demand of the Shanghai International Shipping Center and offers important support for the construction of 3 major green fuel centers when it comes to international shipping.

Interestingly, Shanghai Electric will continue its focus on the whole industrial chain of diverse green fuels manufacturing, storage, shipping, and application. The company will strengthen its research on core technologies and consistently improve its integrated green fuel solution chain. Shanghai Electric drives industrial development via technological innovation and joins hands with partners to speed up the construction of the Green-Methanol and Sustainable Aviation Fuel – SAF project – Taonan Phase-II based on integrated green-hydrogen-coupled-biomass gasification.

The company will gradually enhance its large-scale green fuel supply capacity for aviation as well as maritime sectors. Shanghai Electric will further commit to the national dual carbon targets of China and also driving of the global low-carbon clean energy transition.

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Land management for approximately 120 kilometers of hydrogen infrastructure

Sweco offers services including ownership research, land negotiations, support for rights of way related to construction, and liaison with interested parties along the planned route. In the course of around 16 months, talks are planned with numerous owners, managers, and various other contact persons. Sweco provides an important foundation for the further planning, approval, and execution of the hydrogen pipeline.

Contribution toward climate-neutral energy supply in Central Germany

At the same time as the roadwork, preliminary subsoil tests and ecological mapping of flora and fauna are being carried out for this proposed hydrogen pipeline in East Germany. The results are compiled in documents necessary for the procedure of planning approval.

According to Falk Paulick, Head of Land Management East at Sweco, “In an infrastructure project of this size, transparent, careful, and technically sound communication with owners and managers is crucial. With our experience in route management and land management, we are helping to create the basis for a sustainable hydrogen infrastructure.”

HYBOR as part of the German hydrogen core network

It is well to be noted that HYBOR is short for Hydrogen Bo bbau Rückersdorf. The German gearbox system operator GASCADE will set up the hydrogen pipeline as part of the infrastructure program – Flow – making hydrogen happen and is to be finished by 2029. It links presently existing pipelines, which will in the future be utilized for hydrogen transport, and eliminates a major void in the hydrogen grid. The project therefore promotes the supply of climate-neutral hydrogen to industry, storage, and various other customers in Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony as well as Thuringia.

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The plant is the Sinopec Xinjiang Kuqa Green Hydrogen Pilot Project, which is regarded as the first green hydrogen refining project in China that has an annual capacity of 10,000 tonnes. The project started producing hydrogen on 30 June 2023, integrating hydrogen production, storage, and transportation along with application. It generates green hydrogen straight from photovoltaic power through using the abundant solar energy of the region and supplies it to Tahe Refining & Chemical Company, which is a subsidiary of the largest oil refiner in China, Sinopec. When it comes to the oil refining process, green hydrogen goes on to replace the natural gas that was used before.

Li Ruixia, who is the manager of the hydrogen energy management department at Sinopec Star New Energy Co., Ltd., said, “If the project runs at full capacity, it can cut carbon dioxide emissions by about 485,000 tonnes a year.” She adds that the project has functioned pretty safely and in a stable way for over three years, proving feasibility when it comes to green hydrogen’s large-scale industrial applications.

It is well to be noted that hydrogen is a non-conventional secondary source of energy with wide-ranging uses. Hydrogen production is the first link of the industrial chain of hydrogen. Hydrogen can be produced in one of three ways, producing three distinct kinds of hydrogen having different levels of carbon emissions. Grey hydrogen gets produced out of fossil fuels such as natural gas or coal and has pretty high carbon emissions. Blue hydrogen is produced via fossil fuels but with more complicated and expensive technologies so as to reduce carbon emissions.

Green hydrogen, on the other hand, is produced through using renewable electricity from wind and solar in order to electrolyze water.

It is worth noting that hydrogen is also an important feedstock when it comes to industrial oil refineries. Moving from traditional grey and blue hydrogen to green hydrogen offers new growth prospects for the hydrogen sector and also helps the low-carbon transition in the petrochemical sector.

The fact is that the potential of green hydrogen isn’t limited to refining but can be made use of in industries including steelmaking, power generation as well as transport. Apparently, the China Iron & Steel Research Institute Group Co., Ltd. successfully completed the entire process in terms of producing high-purity iron by way of using pure hydrogen metallurgy technology at its pure hydrogen shaft furnace demonstration line located at the Linyi Lingang Economic Development Zone in Linyi, Shandong province, in east China. The line has gone on to achieve regular production of direct reduced iron with a metallization rate of over 96% and batch trial production of 3N-grade – 99.9% high-purity iron.

The main byproducts of iron oxide reduction with hydrogen are metallic iron as well as water vapor, so the tail gas from the pure hydrogen shaft furnace does not emit any kind of harmful substances and greatly reduces the impact on the environment. It is the first demonstration project in China to successfully apply pure hydrogen shaft furnace technology. It has run stably for over 8,000 hours, with one continuous run of more than 2,000 hours, thereby completely demonstrating its reliability and security.

Interestingly, hydrogen’s high energy density makes it especially suited for long-distance transportation. Hydrogen is now widely utilized across public transit and cold-chain logistics as well as trunk-line freight.

Notably, in order to transport visitors to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, SPIC Hydrogen Energy, which is a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corporation, provided 200 hydrogen-powered buses with fuel cell systems. The buses operated in adverse conditions, which included low temperatures, snowfall, and mountainous roads, travelling a total of more than 880,000 kilometres, which decreased carbon dioxide emissions by more than 620 tonnes, with zero carbon emissions at the time of operation, with zero accidents as well as zero operational errors throughout the course of the event.

By the end of 2025, overall sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in China totalled almost 40,000 units. Applications for hydrogen fuel cell technology have moved beyond passenger vehicles and now include mining trucks, ships, and drones, as well as rail transit. In the meantime, the country had built out 574 hydrogen refueling stations, with a total daily refueling capacity of over 360 tonnes. When it comes to the industrial sector, green hydrogen had begun to gradually substitute conventional fuels in part of the refining and coal chemical processes, while the annual green hydrogen production capacity of the country had reached around 250,000 tonnes.

All these changes go on to reflect a broader shift that points out to the fact that the hydrogen sector in China is moving from technology demonstration to large-scale commercial usage, and the potential for application is growing.

The hydrogen sector in China is experiencing significant growth, fuelled by increasing market demand, coupled with enterprise innovation throughout the industrial chain, and backed by aggressive government policies. Hydrogen has been included as a strategic priority when it comes to several national plans. The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan – 2026-2030 identifies hydrogen as an essential sector for future industries. The strategy for building a new energy system in the same period incorporates hydrogen in the non-fossil energy supply system and sets a goal to produce 2 million tonnes of hydrogen from renewable sources of energy.

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The beamline, designated as the Hydrogen Energy Material Multimodal Measurement Beamline, or BL34XU, will be the world-first dedicated hydrogen beamline at SPring-8-II. NEDO said BL34XU is the world’s first dedicated beamline specialized in the hydrogen energy sphere in the world. It is one of the projects of NEDO’s research and development program that will strengthen common infrastructure in order to expand hydrogen usage.

It is worth noting that the dedicated hydrogen beamline at Spring-8-II is designed for real-world studies of fuel-cell and water-electrolysis materials using multiple state-of-the-art measurement techniques on the identical sample and also under the same conditions at the same time. The idea behind this approach is to enable researchers to see what is going on inside devices like fuel cells and electrolyzers without having to split up tests across separate instruments.

SPring-8-II is a planned successor to the large-scale synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8 in Hyogo Prefecture. The new facility is a fourth-generation synchrotron and will have a brightness roughly 100 times that of the existing SPring-8, achieving what NEDO claimed to be the world’s highest brightness.

The beamline will cover an energy range of 4.5 to 35 keV, +100 keV, linking analysis of materials and devices as well as manufacturing processes on one research platform. In the first experimental hutch, researchers are going to be able to control conditions like temperature and gas as well as electric potential while simultaneously measuring catalysts and polymer electrolyte membranes, which are used in fuel cells as well as water electrolysis.

As per NEDO, simultaneous measurement could mean evaluation about 30 times faster than the previous method, where measurements took almost a month with multiple beamlines. The organization also said the beamline will be used in conjunction with AI and data science to speed up research that has previously needed work involving multiple facilities and instruments.

Interestingly, the second experimental hutch and a longer hutch will be home to manufacturing-process equipment when it comes to mixing and coating as well as drying catalyst ink and also for large-area cells and components at a commercial scale. With the combination of small-angle and ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering with X-ray CT and laminography, one will be able to visualize hierarchical structures from 0.1 nanometers to 100 micrometers.

Construction will start in the latter part of fiscal 2027, which will be the shutdown period for the upgrade of SPring-8 to SPring-8-II from the second half of fiscal 2027 to fiscal 2028. The beamline is planned to start operation in fiscal 2029, and equipment design and purchasing have started since fiscal 2025.

The beamline is designed to be a joint research platform between academic research and national projects, as well as industrial applications in Japan. It has industry advisers from automotive and energy companies to bring in operational requirements from the field.

Notably, hydrogen is one of the strategic fields that Japan has been pushing in its policies as far as green transformation and energy security are concerned. Japan has also been supporting research into fuel cells and water electrolysis for years, via national projects as well as university-led materials science programs.

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The clean hydrogen production facility is being built to provide hydrogen at a cost far below what fleets and transit agencies are paying today, making clean hydrogen a viable alternative when it comes to the Inland Empire and the broader California market. The initial production is aimed at 1.5 to 2 tonnes of clean hydrogen per day, with plans to scale to 10 tonnes per day.

Several clean production paths are under consideration

THD and the airport are assessing multiple proven production pathways, with the ultimate option to be determined by available clean-energy grants and permitting. Options being considered include –

• On-site solar-powered electrolysis for green hydrogen generation
• Reforming of steam methane by natural gas
• Advanced reforming technologies like ethanol-to-hydrogen that have garnered strong interest from regional air quality and clean energy agencies

This flexibility guarantees that the cleanest and most cost-effective technology can be adopted as the project proceeds.

Partnership structure and regional effect

SBIAA will offer the airport site and long-term infrastructure support, while Total Hydrogen Development is going to be the project developer, financing, and advancing the facility. The project will also generate skilled local jobs and increase the profile of San Bernardino as a clean-energy hub for bringing in related industries like zero-emission fleets and hydrogen-powered aviation, as well as fuel-cell logistics, the company said.

As per Greg Heller, Project Lead, Total Hydrogen Development, “This project is about producing clean, affordable hydrogen right here at San Bernardino and delivering it to the fleets and businesses that need it most. “We are proud to work with the San Bernardino International Airport Authority to bring low-cost hydrogen directly to the California market.”

According to the President of the San Bernardino International Airport Authority, Mayor Penny Lilburn, “Our airport is proud to create a partnership and envision a project that advances clean energy, supports local jobs, and positions our region as a leader in sustainable energy.”

Timeline and Future Actions

The project team is working with local fleet operators and transit agencies, as well as business and industrial users, which may profit from locally produced, cost-effective, low-carbon hydrogen. The project is set to reach full operational status in 2027.

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The agreement was inked by the Executive Director – Heavy Power Equipment Plant, Hyderabad, Mr Y. Srinivas Rao, and the General Manager & Head of New & Renewable Energy Business, Mr Sutripto De, on behalf of BHEL, and by the CEO of Hystar, Mr Fredrik Mowill, on behalf of Hystar AS Norway. The signing took place in the presence of the Chargé d’Affaires, Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi, Mr Arvinn Eikeland Gadgil, as well as Ms Bani Varma, who is the Director of Industrial Systems & Products, BHEL, Mr S M Ramanathan, Director of Engineering, Research & Development, BHEL, along with certain other senior officials.

Interestingly, BHEL has already got into a strategic collaboration with Thyssenkrupp Nucera India Private Limited when it comes to alkaline electrolyser systems earlier in 2026. The tie-up with Hystar in terms of PEM electrolyser systems further makes the position of BHEL as one of the few Indian players who are indeed equipped to provide both alkaline and PEM electrolyser solutions in order to take care of the growing green hydrogen market of India. In addition to this, the collaboration is also going to strengthen the project execution capacity of BHEL, especially for green hydrogen projects across India.

For the unversed, BHEL is one of the leading engineering and manufacturing companies in India. It has decades of experience when it comes to power, oil & gas, transmission, renewables, transportation, defence, and aerospace sectors. The company has also been pretty active in building the industrial infrastructure of India and is now making utmost use of its engineering, manufacturing, and project implementation capacities so as to address the rising clean energy areas, which include green hydrogen.

This contract marks a major step in elevating contributions done by BHEL to the National Green Hydrogen Mission as well as the Make in India initiative by the government of India.

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