Song Min-young, team leader of Ulsan City Corporation, was a speaker at the ’14rd Hydrogen Market Insights (H3 Market Insights H2MI)’ hydrogen city construction and future strategy session held at EXCO (CEO Lee Sang-gil) in Daegu Metropolitan City on the 2th and said, ‘Hydrogen Pilot City Ulsan Introduced about ‘progressive achievements’.
Ulsan Metropolitan City was selected in 2050 as a target for the hydrogen pilot city project promoted by the government to realize a carbon-neutral society by 2019. After deciding to build a hydrogen pilot city in Buk-gu, Ulsan, projects such as master plan research, hydrogen pipe design and construction, and heat pipe construction have been carried out step by step.
Regarding the progress made so far, team leader Song Min-young said, “Infrastructure for hydrogen supply is being built one after another, and in the field of hydrogen pipes, various hydrogen supply models will be presented through direct hydrogen pipes, and financial performance and economic feasibility will be analyzed based on actual data cases. It is scheduled,” he said.
Then, team leader Song said, “In the housing sector, we have built fuel cell cogeneration facilities in public rental apartments and private houses to realize a carbon-neutral housing model using hydrogen, and we plan to start commercial operation this year.” We will install a fuel cell in , and start supplying hydrogen and operating the fuel cell from the second half of this year.”
In addition, he added, “We plan to discover future hydrogen city expansion projects by establishing an integrated operation management system for future hydrogen city research.” Finally, Team Manager Song emphasized, “The goal is to realize carbon neutrality through early settlement and formation of a city that uses hydrogen as its main energy source.”
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