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2025 , Vol. 6 >Issue 1: 100199

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsus.2025.100199

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Green hydrogen production from wind energy in Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD), the Russian Federation

  • Mihail DEMIDIONOV
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  • The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Saint-Petersburg, 191186, the Russian Federation
* E-mail address: demidionovforwork@gmail.com (Mihail DEMIDIONOV).

Received date: 2024-07-19

  Accepted date: 2024-12-25

  Online published: 2025-03-13

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2666-660X/© 2025 Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd., 2025, This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Abstract

There is a gradual increase in the proportion of renewable energy sources. Green hydrogen has the potential to become one of the major energy carriers in the future. The Russian Federation, in partnership with countries in the Asia-Pacific region and especially China, has the potential to play a significant role in green hydrogen market. This study assessed the potential of developing green hydrogen energy based on wind power in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) of the Russian Federation. Empirical wind speed data were collected from 20 meteorological stations in 4 regions (Sakhalinskaya Oblast’, Primorskiy Krai, Khabarovskiy Krai, and Amurskaya Oblast’) of the FEFD. The Weibull distribution was used to predict the potential of green hydrogen production. Five different methods (Empirical Method of Justus (EMJ), Empirical Method of Lysen (EML), Maximum Likelihood Method (MLE), Power Density Method (PDM), and Median and Quartiles Method (MQM)) were used to determine the parameters (scape factor and scale factor) of the Weibull distribution. We calculated the total electricity generation potential based on the technical specifications of the three wind turbines: Senvion 6150 onshore, H165-4.0 MW, and Vestas V150-4.2 MW. The results showed that Vladivostok, Pogibi, Ilyinskiy, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Severo-Kuril’sk, Kholmsk, and Okha stations had the higher potential of green hydrogen production, of which Vladivostok exhibited the highest potential of green hydrogen production using the wind turbine of H165-4.0 MW, up to 2.56×105 kg/a. In terms of economic analysis, the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH) values of lower than 4.00 USD/kg were obtained at Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Ilyinskiy, Pogibi, and Vladivostok stations using the wind turbine of H165-4.0 MW, with the values of 3.54, 3.50, 3.24, and 2.55 USD/kg, respectively. This study concluded that the FEFD possesses significant potential in the production of green hydrogen and, with appropriate investment, has the potential to become a significant hub for green hydrogen trading in the Asia-Pacific region.

Key words： Green hydrogen; Wind energy; Electricity generation; Weibull distribution; Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD); Russian Federation

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Mihail DEMIDIONOV . Green hydrogen production from wind energy in Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD), the Russian Federation[J]. Regional Sustainability, 2025 , 6(1) : 100199 . DOI: 10.1016/j.regsus.2025.100199

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