Tracking Green Hydrogen Projects: China Energy Engineering Group's Songyuan Hydrogen Industrial Park Races Towards Full Operation, World's Largest Green Hydrogen-Ammonia-Methanol Project Is Expected to Be Completed

Recently, the world’s largest integrated green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol project—China Energy Construction Songyuan Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park—has fully entered the critical phase of integrated commissioning and trial production. All participants carry forward the “iron-army” spirit of exceptional endurance, combativeness, problem-solving, and dedication, staying on the commissioning front day and night to ensure the project is on track for start-up in H2 2025.

With a total investment of 29.6 billion yuan, the project is among NDRC’s first batch of green low-carbon advanced-technology demonstration projects and a green liquid-fuel technology R&D and industrialisation pilot of the National Energy Administration. It also serves as the core engine of Jilin Province’s “Northern China Hydrogen Valley” strategy. The project is planned in phases: 3 million kW of new energy generation capacity and annual output of 800,000 mt of green ammonia and green methanol. Phase I invests 6.946 billion yuan to build 800,000 kW of new energy generation and supporting facilities producing 200,000 mt per year of green ammonia and green methanol.

Confronting the technical challenges of high system integration and precise control logic, Songyuan Company has innovatively adopted a “unit decomposition + individual accountability” model, dividing the complex process into seven units. Party-member technical backbones “operate from wall charts,” while multidisciplinary teams collaborate closely to form a powerful assault force. In the central control room, the chief dispatcher watches screen data changes, repeatedly verifies parameters, and issues precise instructions, embedding a “strict, meticulous, and pragmatic” style into every step.

To ensure issues are closed out promptly, the project team has pioneered a “Party building + production” daily-clearance method: a “project morning meeting” at dawn sets daily priorities and safety requirements; an “assault evening meeting” at dusk focuses on problem screening and solution optimisation, using a “problem-oriented + checklist management” model to review progress one by one. Countless nights, the lights of the meeting room bear witness to builders who treat the plant as home, embodying the profound meaning of dedication to their posts.

Through an integrated model of wind and solar power generation, water electrolysis for hydrogen, and synthesis of green ammonia and green methanol, the project effectively solves renewable-energy curtailment and accelerates the energy-structure transition. After commissioning, it will become a benchmark for China’s integrated development of new energy and green chemicals, providing vital support for achieving the “dual-carbon” goals. Core-equipment commissioning is now advancing solidly and orderly, and builders, with full enthusiasm and high morale, are laying a solid foundation for successful start-up.

Notably, in September this year, the feasibility study report for the project's second phase successfully passed expert review, and construction is expected to commence within the year. The full completion of the project will further improve the regional green energy industry chain, promote the transformation of the energy structure in north China, and provide a "China solution" for the large-scale development of the global hydrogen energy industry.