Hydrogen in South Korea
The Korean government has announced the Hydrogen Economy roadmap with ambitious numbers such as 81,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (310 refueling stations) and 1.5GW stationary fuel cell power plants in Korea by 2022. The focus of the roadmap is more of utilization of hydrogen because Korea has fuel cell automaker and stationary fuel cell manufacturers. On the other hand, technologies for hydrogen production, storage, transport and refueling station are mostly outsourced. The Korean government put more funding/policy supports for hydrogen economy amid COVID-19 crisis under part of the Green New Deal scheme as it is considered as the next growth engine for struggling Korean heavy industries and way to reduce greenhouse gas emission.
