Goldwind's First Batch of Green Methanol Successfully Shipped: Multi-Party Collaborative Innovation Sets a New Benchmark for Green Chemicals

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On September 10, the first batch of products from Goldwind's green methanol project in Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, was officially shipped to Yingkou Port in Liaoning, marking the world's first full-industry-chain technology route of wind power-to-hydrogen coupled with biomass gasification-to-methanol as having achieved a complete engineering and industrialization closed loop, advancing from the demonstration and validation stage to the commercial operation stage. This project is a landmark achievement in the deep integration of new energy and green chemicals, empowering energy industry transformation with new quality productive forces, and provides a demonstration case for the large-scale, market-oriented, and international development of China's green liquid fuels.

The landing of this inaugural delivery is the result of Goldwind's collaborative efforts with authoritative research teams, engineering construction teams, design and R&D teams, certification bodies, and industry chain partners. Leveraging the wind power and biomass resource advantages of Hinggan League, the project has established a new zero-carbon industrial pathway of "wind and solar new energy power generation — green electricity electrolysis for hydrogen production — low-carbon biomass gasification — green hydrogen coupled methanol synthesis," validating and opening up a full-chain innovation system from renewable energy collection and green feedstock preparation to terminal green product output, achieving a leapfrog breakthrough from technical demonstration and pilot-scale iteration to million-ton-scale industrial implementation.

Deep Multi-Party Collaboration Overcomes Common Industry Technical Challenges

The project has joined forces with multiple authoritative domestic research teams and industrial platforms to innovatively develop a fluctuating green hydrogen coupled low-carbon gasification intelligent synthesis process, effectively adapting to the intermittent and fluctuating characteristics of wind power. It achieves efficient, stable, and large-scale conversion of low-density wind energy and biomass energy into high-density, standardized, storable and transportable green chemical energy, establishing a replicable and scalable new model of new energy-chemical integration, and providing core technical support and an engineering practice model for the integrated development of green energy and the chemical industry.

Industry Chain Jointly Builds to Open Up a Commercial and Global Closed Loop

Since the project's launch, Goldwind has worked with top engineering design and construction units to advance project implementation to high standards throughout the entire process, from overall process package planning, core equipment design, key equipment selection, construction, to system joint commissioning. It has efficiently completed all node tasks including gasification unit hoisting, system debugging, process integration, and feedstock production, ensuring the project's commercial commissioning and inaugural delivery on schedule.

In the fields of standard certification and market compliance, the project, empowered by the system of authoritative certification bodies, has opened up a complete closed loop of "green technology R&D — green product certification — international compliance recognition — global market delivery," establishing a standardized and compliant system for Chinese green methanol to enter the international market and building a mature channel for domestic green fuels to go global. At present, the product's full-chain green certification, ISCC EU/PLUS/ISO carbon footprint, and China's first RFNBO green hydrogen certification for green methanol have all been secured.

In terms of commercial progress, Goldwind has signed long-term supply agreements for a cumulative total of over 750,000 tons of green methanol with global leading shipping companies such as Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, making it the earliest enterprise in China to achieve large-scale international long-term agreement implementation for green methanol.

Green methanol is one stop in the extension of wind power's value. In the future, this exploration path from wind and solar power generation to green fuels will be brought into deep decarbonization fields such as shipping, aviation, high-end chemicals, and new materials. The boundaries of wind power are being redefined time and again through scenario innovation.