GreenergyDaily
Mar. 21, 2024
1. China's largest green hydrogen production and distribution station has completed construction in C China's Hunan with basic service capabilities. The station, with a daily capacity of not less than 2 tonnes of hydrogen, can fill 4 hydrogen-powered vehicles at the same time.
2. China's domestically designed Hualong One reactor technology has become the most widely-used third-generation nuclear power tech worldwide, with a total of 27 nuclear power units equipped with Hualong One currently in use and under construction.
3. China's first homegrown hydrogen-powered suburban train Thur successfully completed a full-capacity running test at a speed of 160 km/h in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin, marking a breakthrough in the application of hydrogen energy in rail transit system.
4. Recently, the steel containment vessel of Unit 3 at SPIC Haiyang nuclear power plant was lifted and installed, marking the completion of over half of the installation work for the safety containment of Unit 3.
5. Russia said on Sunday it would deepen oil export cuts in December by potentially 50,000 barrels per day or more, earlier than promised, as the world's biggest exporters try to support the global oil price. Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world's two biggest oil exporters, called in December for all OPEC+ members to join an agreement on output cuts. Russia has been in talks for years about building the Power of Siberia-2 which will carry about 50 billion cubic meter of gas a year from Yamal in northern Russia to China via Mongolia.
6. Operating in July 2022, the China Telecom (National) Digital Qinghai Green Big Data Center, China's first zero-carbon data center in Haidong City, NW China's Qinghai Province, has achieved "carbon neutrality" and "zero carbon" emissions, reducing carbon emissions by more than 300,000 tons per year.
7. Shell has abandoned a key climate target for 2035 and weakened another goal for 2030, according to its latest "energy transition strategy". The oil major has "updated" its target to cut the total "net carbon intensity" of all the energy products it sells to customers – the emissions per unit of energy – by 20% between 2016 and 2030. The reduction is now set at between 15-20%.
8. China has started building a 2-million-kW power plant — the world's largest single-unit capacity tower-type photothermal power project under construction — in northwest China's Qinghai. The project can deliver 3.65 billion kWh of electricity to the grid annually upon operation.
9. Li Auto mistakenly regarded the Mega as a high-speed development product instead of a normal new product and paid excessive attention to sales and competition, CEO Li Xiang said in an internal letter commenting on this month's poor sales performance of the Chinese NEV startup's most expensive model.
10. From January to February 2024, China's cumulative export volume of lithium-ion batteries was 595 million units, a year-on-year increase of 10.4%, according to data from the China Chemical and Physical Power Supply Industry Association on March 21.
