Hebei Province will steadily advance the construction of offshore wind and solar projects, accelerate the development of offshore clean energy projects in Qinhuangdao, Tangshan, and Cangzhou, and urge already-approved projects to move forward faster, according to the "Green Movement Bohai" Action Plan (2026-2030) Hebei Chapter released days ago.
The plan places offshore new energy development within the overall framework of green shipping transformation. Guided by the general approach of "land-sea coordination, simultaneous development of wind and solar, integrated development, and safety and efficiency," it makes systematic arrangements for deeply integrating offshore new energy development with the green and low-carbon transformation of ports and shipping.
Offshore wind and solar development will be carried out on a large scale. Hebei Province is making scientific arrangements in the three coastal cities of Qinhuangdao, Tangshan, and Cangzhou, and steadily advancing offshore wind and offshore solar projects. On the offshore wind side, projects such as the Shanhaiguan Offshore Wind Phase I, Hebei Construction Investment Tangshan Offshore Wind, and Tangshan Shunhuan Offshore Wind are being advanced in echelon. On the offshore solar side, Qinhuangdao's 1.8 million kilowatt offshore solar demonstration pilot project and Qinhuangdao's 2 million kilowatt "wind-solar co-located" offshore solar project are being accelerated.
New breakthroughs will be explored in direct green power connections for offshore new energy. Hebei Province will implement supporting policies for single-user and multi-user direct green power connections, establish a green approval channel featuring "approval upon submission," and, based on demand from load centers in Tangshan and Qinhuangdao, guide coastal areas in exploring demonstration projects for "offshore wind plus direct green power connection." It will promote point-to-point supply of offshore green power through dedicated lines to large coastal industrial users such as steel and chemical enterprises, help key products meet export carbon footprint requirements, and effectively transform the advantage of offshore green power into a green competitive advantage for coastal industries.
The province will also explore diversified integrated development of new energy and marine industries. It will steadily promote the integration of offshore wind and offshore solar with marine ranching, marine computing, seawater desalination, and seawater hydrogen production, cultivate new marine green industries, and form a new pattern of marine energy utilization featuring multi-energy complementarity, three-dimensional development, and integrated growth. It will accelerate green development of oilfields, encourage nearby connection of green power to oilfield production systems, promote capacity expansion of shore power for the Qinhuangdao-Caofeidian oilfield cluster, and support the Qinhuangdao 27-3 oilfield in building a "low-carbon zero-carbon operation area." It will vigorously develop green manufacturing industries such as new energy ships and high-end marine engineering equipment, plan and implement projects including unmanned vessel manufacturing in Qinhuangdao and intelligent port equipment manufacturing, and orderly lay out frontier industries such as seawater hydrogen production.
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