China started construction of its first deep underground cavern hydrogen storage facility

(Daye, Hubei province) China’s first deep underground cavern hydrogen storage began construction in Daye city, Hubei province on Jan 23th, which is a component of this solar power-green hydrogen-pipeline transportation-underground storage-multi fuel energy station pilot project.

Photo: the blueprint of this pilot project

Daye 大冶, the Chinese name means “big metallurgy”, has a copper mining and metallurgy history dating back to 1,200 BC. This region has good resources of copper, iron ore, and gold. However, after over 3,000 years mining, this region now hosts many depleted underground mining caves and waste land which could be reconstructed to green hydrogen production base and deep underground energy storage facilities.