PetroChina has targeted increasing its green energy production and utilization capacity by 3.5 million mt standard coal/year in 2021, as part of its effort to meet emission peak by around 2025 and neutrality by 2050, president Huang Yongzhang said during the company’s interim result conference call late on Aug. 26. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now In the first half of the year, the company developed a new contracted geothermal heating area spanning 10 million square meters and won several approvals for wind power and solar power development. The capacity of its under-construction geothermal, wind power, and solar power, and other alternative projects totaled 350,000 mt of standard coal/year, according to Huang. PetroChina has also kicked off a hydrogen purification project while constructing six hydrogen refueling centers, Huang said. PetroChina brought its first two hydrogen refueling centers online in 2021 in Taizicheng and […]