Recently, the National Energy Administration issued Announcement No. 5 of 2026. Following expert review and public notice, it decided to list 90 technology equipment items, including the "16MW-class floating offshore wind turbine generator system," as the sixth batch of first (set) major technology equipment in the energy sector. Among them, 12 items are first (set) major technology equipment in the hydrogen energy sector.
30MW-Class Pure Hydrogen Gas Turbine Leads, Multiple Fields Covered
The 12 selected technology equipment items in the hydrogen energy sector span multiple directions, including gas turbines, coal power co-firing with green hydrogen, hydrogen storage systems, hydrogen production equipment, hydrogen liquefaction, concentrated solar hydrogen production, electrolyzers, ammonia-to-hydrogen, methanol-to-hydrogen, and CO2 hydrogenation to methanol:
- 30MW-Class Pure Hydrogen Gas Turbine: developed by Wuxi Mingyang Hydrogen Power Technology Co., Ltd., supported by the Tacheng 500MW wind power hydrogen production and storage coupled with pure hydrogen gas turbine integrated demonstration project
- Complete Equipment for Wide-Load, High-Ratio Green Hydrogen Co-Firing and Flexible Peak Shaving on a 1000MW Coal Unit: developed by Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China Power Engineering Consulting Group, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shanghai Boiler Works Co., Ltd., and Inner Mongolia University of Technology, supported by the Inner Mongolia Power Tengger Delivery Base Project
- 100kg-Class High-Pressure/Solid-State Hybrid Hydrogen Storage System: developed by Gangyan Huapu Technology Co., Ltd., State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., China Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd., and others, supported by the State Grid Jiangsu Electricity-Hydrogen Smart Microgrid State Grid Demonstration Project
- Megawatt-Class Compact Renewable Energy Power-Heat-Hydrogen Cogeneration System Equipment: developed by State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., Tsinghua University, Tongji University, the 718th Research Institute of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, and others, supported by the Ningbo Cixi Megawatt-Class Compact Renewable Energy Power-Heat-Hydrogen Cogeneration Demonstration Project
- Megawatt-Class Alkaline-Proton Exchange Membrane Hybrid Hydrogen Production System: developed by Jiageng Innovation Laboratory, Guohydrogen Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Ludao Hydrogen Energy (Xiamen) Technology Co., Ltd., and others, supported by the CHN Energy Guohydrogen Technology (Ningxia) New Energy Co., Ltd. project
- 30 mt/day-Class Hydrogen Liquefaction Equipment: developed by Aerospace Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Aerospace Testing Technology Research Institute
- 200 mt/year Concentrated Solar Hydrogen Production Reactor System: developed by the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Na'ou Xinye Chemical Research Institute Co., Ltd., supported by the Panzhihua polyhedral strontium titanate concentrated solar hydrogen production (and refueling) integrated station pilot base project
- Megawatt-Class Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolysis Hydrogen Production Unit Based on 200kW Stack Integration: developed by Beijing Yineng Hydrogen Source Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Beijing Jingneng Technology Co., Ltd., supported by the Beijing green electricity hydrogen production project supporting the 200MW PV power generation project in Yi County, Hebei province
- Single-Stack 500kW Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolysis Hydrogen Production Unit: developed by CSSC (Handan) Peric Hydrogen Technologies Co., Ltd., China Datang Corporation Technology Innovation Co., Ltd., and others, supported by the Datang Hainan Lingao Jinpai Port Zero-Carbon Park Hydrogen Energy Innovation Certification Base Project
- 1 mt/day Low-Temperature Ammonia-to-Hydrogen-Purification-Refueling Integrated Complete Equipment Technology: developed by the National Engineering Research Center of Chemical Fertilizer Catalyst, Fuzhou University, and Fuda Zijin Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd., based on the low-temperature ammonia decomposition on-site ammonia-to-hydrogen production and refueling integrated demonstration project
- 500Nm³/h Distributed Methanol-to-Hydrogen Unit: developed by Sinopec Research Institute of Petroleum Processing Co., Ltd., supported by the Dalian Shenggang Integrated Hydrogen Refueling Station
- 100,000 mt-Class CO2 Hydrogenation to Green Methanol Reactor: developed by China Coal Ordos Energy and Chemical Co., Ltd., Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hualu Engineering & Technology Co., Ltd., and others, supported by the 100,000 mt/year Liquid Sunshine-CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol Technology Demonstration Project
Three Major Support Policies Available
According to the announcement, the developers, users, and supporting projects of the first (set) major technology equipment in the hydrogen energy sector are entitled to the support policies specified in the "Opinions on Promoting the Demonstration and Application of First (Set) Major Technology Equipment" (Fa Gai Chan Ye [2018] No. 558) and the "Notice of the National Energy Administration on Promoting the Demonstration and Application of First (Set) Major Technology Equipment in the Energy Sector" (Guo Neng Fa Ke Ji [2022] No. 49).
The announcement requires all relevant units to promptly advance the development of the technology equipment and solidly carry out applications through the supporting projects. The developers and users of first (set) major technology equipment in the energy sector shall report work progress to the NEA in a timely manner, conduct self-evaluation one year after the supporting project is put into operation, and submit the self-evaluation report to the NEA.
