Shanghai (ZXZC)- Nanjing, the capital city of China’s Jiangsu province, aims to deploy 3 hydrogen filling stations and 300 fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) by 2025, according to a document issued by Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology. 

The document elaborates on the action plan local authorities hammered out for the development of Nanjing city’s energy storage and hydrogen industry during the 2023-2025 period.

Geely fuel cell bus; photo credit: Geely

The industries in Nanjing encompass the entire industrial chain, including the manufacturing of energy storage equipment, raw material supply, system integration, system applications, hydrogen production, and hydrogen refueling station construction, and FCV applications, said the document.

In terms of key platform construction, a number of research platforms in the fields of energy storage and hydrogen energy have been gathered. As for spatial layout, a development pattern with Jiangbei, Jiangning, Lishui, and Gaochun districts as the focus has been preliminarily formed.

The Plan indicates that Nanjing aims to establish the Jiangbei-Jiangning deep-water energy-storage industrial cluster and the Gaochun-Deep Water-Jiangbei hydrogen energy application demonstration zone, with the city's energy storage and hydrogen energy industry reaching a scale of 50 billion yuan by 2025.

In the aspect of energy storage, key leading enterprises will be fostered and a group of key core component enterprises will be introduced in Nanjing city, including bipolar plates, cathode materials, energy management systems (EMS), power conversion system (PCS), system integration, etc.