Cheongju: Hyundai Motor Group announced the completion of South Korea's inaugural resource-circulating clean hydrogen production facility, which leverages biogas sourced from sewage sludge.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the facility, named HTWO Energy, is situated at a public sewage treatment plant on a 7,500-square-meter site in Cheongju, approximately 137 kilometers south of Seoul. The facility can generate around 500 kilograms of hydrogen daily, sufficient to power about 100 of Hyundai Motor's Nexo hydrogen fuel cell vehicles or 30 hydrogen fuel cell buses.

The HTWO Energy facility features an advanced upgrading system to convert biogas into high-quality biomethane. It also includes a hydrogen extraction system, which produces hydrogen by reacting biomethane with steam, and a system for producing liquefied carbon dioxide. Hyundai Motor Group has set a target to increase the facility's daily hydrogen production capacity to 2 tons by 2030.