The Energy Bureau of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has approved a demonstration project to generate green hydrogen beginning in June 2023 from a network of wind- and solar-powered plants intended to transform one of China's major coal-mining regions into a renewable-energy hub. The cluster of projects scheduled to break ground in October envisions construction of five wind/solar hydrogen demonstration projects in Ordos City and two similar projects in Baotou City. Together, they would use 1.85 GW of solar and 369,500 MW of wind to produce 66,900 tons of green hydrogen a year, according to a report issued by China's Hydrogen Energy Industry Promotion Association. The cluster of demonstration projects in Inner Mongolia is the Chinese government's biggest yet, and the hydrogen produced could displace nearly 180 million gallons of gasoline a year if consumed by electric vehicles, a Bloomberg analyst said. China's annual demand for hydrogen is forecast to hit 60 million tons by 2050, an amount that would eliminate 700 million tons of carbon emissions, Sinopec, the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, said in a news release in March when China announced its latest 5-year plan, which targets hydrogen as a key to China's realizing its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.