Nobel laureate Benjamin List praised Yangjiang's plan to combine offshore wind with hydrogen production from seawater at the Greater Bay Area Green Energy Conference on Hailing Island, October 16-17, 2026. List, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said green hydrogen could become a core feedstock for the chemical industry but remains expensive, especially in Europe. He called Yangjiang's move a major step forward. Yangjiang is one of Guangdong's main offshore wind hubs, and pairing wind power with electrolysis is one way to use surplus electricity while cutting hydrogen's carbon footprint. The article does not list project capacity, electrolyzer technology, or a timeline, so the practical details still need to be confirmed. For now, the story signals that local officials are positioning Yangjiang as a green hydrogen base for the Greater Bay Area.
