Posted on 02 Apr 2025
South Korea’s ChloroPlant has secured a contract to build a 10-megawatt (MW) green hydrogen plant in Sarawak, Malaysia, Kallanish reports.
Valued at around $17 million, the deal will see the Seoul-headquartered firm design, construct and operate the plant. The contract was awarded by Singapore-based clean energy investment firm H1Hydro Group.
Phase 1 operations are expected to come online in the first quarter of 2026. Once the first phase is successful, further expansions will follow, the company says. This would include establishing a green hydrogen container distribution business for the Northeast Asian markets, covering South Korea and Japan.
While the plant will use “advanced” European electrolysis technology, the developers are currently in discussion with Korean and Malaysian companies for hydrogen storage and transportation technologies.
“The expected production cost of hydrogen from this plant is competitive compared to other facilities in the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring strong competitiveness in the global hydrogen market,” ChloroPlant claims.
However, the company did not give estimates of the anticipated production cost or elaborate on why it would be competitive.
Malaysia, which published its national hydrogen roadmap in 2023, aims to produce 2 million tonnes/year of hydrogen by 2030. One of the major projects in the country is a 10-gigawatt (GW) green hydrogen hub announced late last year in the state of Sabah. It is targeting the production of 250,000 tonnes/year of green hydrogen.
Source:Kallanish
