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Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) broke ground for the construction of its production base in Gwangju in March 2023 that could help it supply 1.03 million tons of hydrogen in 2030.
Of that volume, the company will supply 830,000 tons of hydrogen annually on its own in 2030 and import 200,000 tons of green hydrogen from Southeast Asia and Australia in 2030.
Such a volume could power 10,000 units of hydrogen cars.
The production base encompasses hydrogen production bases, hydrogen charging stations, and overseas hydrogen production facilities and produces over four tons of hydrogen a day by utilizing natural gas supplied through pipes.
Kogas also plans to build hydrogen utilities in provincial regions, including Changwon in South Gyeongsang Province and Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi Province.
The base in Pyeongtaek would be South Korea’s first carbon-neutral hydrogen mega-station platform.
The plan is to send natural gas to the hydrogen extraction base in Pyeongtaek to produce gaseous hydrogen and liquefy it, using LNG cold heat of minus 160 degrees Celsius, before supplying it to hydrogen vehicles.
Kogas is also planning to build 152 charging stations by 2030 and utilize clean hydrogen by utilizing Jeju Island’s abundant wind power to make it the world’s first hydrogen-centered green island.
