South Korea is building the world's largest green hydrogen fuel cell power plant — turning imported hydrogen into clean baseload electricity for millions.
South Korea's energy situation is acute. The country imports over 93% of its energy — almost entirely fossil fuels. It has limited land for large-scale solar or wind development. And its densely populated industrial economy requires enormous, reliable electricity supply. Green hydrogen — imported from countries with abundant cheap renewables and used to generate electricity in fuel cells — offers South Korea a path to energy security that its geography cannot provide domestically.
The Boryeong Fuel Cell Power Plant in South Chungcheong Province is the world's largest hydrogen fuel cell power plant — 400 MW of clean, silent, emission-free electricity generation running on hydrogen. The plant uses phosphoric acid fuel cells that convert hydrogen directly to electricity with no combustion — producing water as the only byproduct.
South Korea's hydrogen economy roadmap targets 15 GW of fuel cell power generation by 2040. The government has designated hydrogen as a core energy source under its Hydrogen Economy Promotion Act — the world's first national hydrogen economy law. KEPCO, Hyundai, and Doosan Fuel Cell are all major players in the fuel cell manufacturing and power generation ecosystem.
Hyundai — whose hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are among the world's most advanced — is extending its automotive fuel cell technology to stationary power generation, producing modular fuel cell systems for buildings, data centers, and industrial facilities.
South Korea cannot grow its own energy. So it is engineering systems that can run on clean energy made anywhere.
Korea Hydrogen Industry Association — 2024
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