The world's first semi-submersible offshore wind-to-hydrogen platform has floated in Jiangmen, south China's Guangdong Province, opening a new avenue for the development and utilization of clean marine energy, its developer China International Marine Containers (CIMC) announced Friday.
The Shenhai Hydrogen Energy No. 1 platform moved down a mechanized comb-type slipway before tugboats guided it into open water, where it completed the float-out.
Unlike conventional offshore wind farms, which send electricity to shore through undersea cables, the platform is designed to convert green electricity from offshore wind directly into hydrogen at sea.
Its integrated systems cover water electrolysis hydrogen production, methanol production and hydrogen storage, tackling challenges including high transmission losses over long distances and the difficulty of connecting deep-sea wind power to the grid.
The platform has completed onshore commissioning of its process systems and will soon head to waters off Danzhou City in south China's Hainan Province for offshore deployment and testing.
China launches world's first semi-submersible offshore wind-to-hydrogen platform
Heavy airstrikes hit Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa and the Red Sea port city of Mocha in the southwestern province of Taiz on Saturday, killing and wounding several people, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
Successive airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition rocked Sanaa with powerful explosions. Local residents said that warplanes continued to hover over the capital amid loud blasts.
Al-Masirah said three people were killed and several others wounded when a strike hit a house in Asr, western Sanaa. It also reported casualties after a cement factory was struck in Hamdan district, northwest of the capital.
The broadcaster also said nearly 20 airstrikes hit Mocha, a city in southwestern Taiz province near the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, one of the world's key maritime chokepoints.
There was no immediate comment from the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
Turki Al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, said on Saturday on social media platform X that the coalition intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthi group toward the Saudi capital Riyadh.
The strikes came as Yemen's internationally recognized government forces, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, intensified their "Dawn of Yemen" offensive against the Houthis, while the group has responded with missile and drone attacks deep inside Saudi Arabia.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since late 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and much of the country's north, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene the following year in support of the internationally recognized Yemeni government.
Heavy airstrikes hit Houthi-held Sanaa, Mocha amid escalating Yemen conflict
