2025, the online approval office of investment projects in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region disclosed that the world's first 100-million-ton liquid sunshine green methanol manufacturing project was cancelled.
According to previous information disclosure, the total investment of the project is 18.53 billion yuan , and the construction site is located in Bayin Aobao Industrial Park, Alashan Economic Development Zone, Inner Mongolia. The planned construction period is from July 2024 to August 2026. In the first phase of
the project, a demonstration project with an annual output of 500,000 tons of green low-carbon methanol will be completed, and in the second phase, a project with an annual output of 5 million tons of green low-carbon methanol will be completed. The long-term plan is to form an annual production capacity of 100 million tons of green low-carbon methanol.
The project utilizes the abundant wind and solar resources of Alxa League in Inner Mongolia (the available resources exceed 1.3 billion kilowatts, and the prospective resources exceed 3 billion kilowatts), applies the process of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, and synthesizes green low-carbon methanol by capturing carbon dioxide and coupling new energy to produce green hydrogen, so as to build a national new energy base.
The project plans to adopt the core technology of green low-carbon methanol preparation, which mixes carbon dioxide and hydrogen to synthesize methanol in one step after pressurization. The process technology integrates and innovates the whole process of methanol synthesis from carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and has completely independent intellectual property rights.