Ordos Ejin Horo International Airport in Inner Mongolia now runs on a CO2-based energy system powered by wind and solar. Clean sources cover more than 90% of the airport's energy use, with annual renewable generation above 21 million kWh. Heating and cooling energy consumption fell 60%, operating costs dropped 50%, and natural gas use is down by more than 2 million cubic metres per year, cutting around 9,500 tonnes of annual carbon emissions. The project is part of a wider Ordos push into hydrogen storage, electric mining trucks, autonomous transport and zero-carbon data centres. A planned off-grid industrial park would use hydrogen for long-duration storage. For Pakistan, the airport offers a concrete reference point for clean energy cooperation, though the next step is checking whether the technology and financing model transfer to a different grid and climate.
