Ministry of Industry to Quickly Establish Safety Standards for Hydrogen and Ammonia Infrastructure
The government has decided to promptly establish safety standards for production, distribution, and storage infrastructure related to clean hydrogen power generation and to improve unreasonable regulations.
On the 4th, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held a public-private hydrogen industry regulatory innovation council meeting at an ammonia-based hydrogen extraction facility demonstration site in Cheongju, Chungbuk, where companies related to hydrogen and ammonia power generation participated, listening to companies' requests for regulatory improvements and on-site difficulties.
The Ministry introduced regulatory improvement tasks among the promotion tasks of the 'Hydrogen Safety Management Roadmap 2.0' announced last May, including ▲establishing safety standards for ammonia-based clean hydrogen production facilities ▲allowing hydrogen blending in city gas pipelines ▲establishing safety standards for large-capacity high-pressure hydrogen and ammonia pipelines for power generation ▲rationalizing the spacing distance of large-capacity storage tanks at ammonia receiving bases.
Specifically, the Ministry plans to allow hydrogen blending in city gas pipeline networks by 2026 and, before that, to establish safety standards for large-scale storage facilities for hydrogen pipelines reflecting hydrogen characteristics and liquefied hydrogen receiving bases.
The Ministry also stated that it will continue to promote regulatory improvements while communicating with related companies to ensure the successful establishment of the hydrogen and ammonia power generation market.
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In January, the Ministry announced the 10th Basic Plan for Electricity Supply and Demand, stating that to achieve the 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target, the share of hydrogen and ammonia co-firing power generation will be expanded to 2.1% (hydrogen 6.1 TWh / ammonia 6.9 TWh).
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