锚定新赛道 打造区域氢能协同发展标杆Targeting New Tracks: Building a Benchmark for Regional Coordinated Hydrogen Development

According to Green Fuel International Business Network, Lu Caiyin, vice president of Rockcheck Group and general manager of Rockcheck New Energy Group, wrote recently that, in an era when the "dual carbon" strategy is being comprehensively advanced and the energy structure is accelerating its transition, hydrogen energy, as a clean and efficient secondary energy, has become a key lever for safeguarding national energy security and solving the problem of high carbon emissions in the transportation sector.

Rockcheck Group has been anchored to the hydrogen energy track since 2019 and established Rockcheck New Energy Group in 2023, deeply integrating green transition with the upgrading of its main business. Positioning itself as an integrator of hydrogen energy industry solutions, it has laid out the entire hydrogen energy industrial chain of "production, storage, transportation, refueling, use, research and equipment manufacturing." As of the end of May this year, the company had put 1,215 hydrogen heavy trucks into operation and built 16 hydrogen refueling stations, with cumulative mileage of more than 74.31 million kilometers and cumulative carbon reduction of 70,000 tonnes, making it a leading real-economy enterprise in China with vehicles actually carrying out hydrogen heavy truck transport business on municipal roads. It has not only achieved its own transformation from a traditional steel company into a green new energy company, but has also become a backbone force in the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hydrogen energy industry.

In terms of its commercial path, Rockcheck New Energy differs from the industry's model of relying solely on technology R&D and policy subsidies, innovatively adopting a scenario-led development path, building real, high-intensity application scenarios so that technology iterates in real combat and business models are proven in operation. Relying on diversified application scenarios such as ports, mines, steel, chemicals and cold chain, the company has built multiple cross-provincial zero-carbon transport routes, becoming a model for the low-carbon transition of cross-regional bulk freight.

The company has also created a distinctive "one core, two poles" development model, with a digital and intelligent big data platform as the core, aggregating more than 30 billion pieces of full-industrial-chain data, and with "hydrogen + economy" and "vehicle + economy" as the two poles — one pole ensuring stable hydrogen supply and hydrogen refueling network coverage, and the other focusing on the R&D and manufacturing of complete vehicles and components.

In the fuel cell field, the company has independently developed fuel cell systems, reducing the hydrogen consumption of hydrogen heavy trucks to 8 kg per 100 kilometers and raising the range to 700 kilometers, with overall performance superior to traditional diesel heavy trucks. At the same time, the company has made forward-looking arrangements in cutting-edge technology fields: a 400 kW high-power stack hydrogen heavy truck has completed prototype testing, a full-chain liquid hydrogen demonstration project has been successfully implemented, and a liquid hydrogen heavy truck can travel 1,000 kilometers on a single refueling. From upgrading the hydrogen supply system and lightweight modification of complete vehicles to AEM water electrolysis for hydrogen production and exploration of intelligent driving for commercial vehicles, Rockcheck New Energy has gradually built an independent and controllable hydrogen energy technology system.

In terms of regional coordination, the company's hydrogen refueling stations and hydrogen transport routes already fully cover the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and extend to Shanxi, Shandong, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and other places, with 16 hydrogen refueling stations forming a cross-regional refueling network, with a maximum daily hydrogen refueling volume of more than 10 tonnes, accounting for 18% of the country's hydrogen for transportation.

Looking to the future, Rockcheck New Energy plans to promote more than 10,000 hydrogen heavy trucks and operate 100 hydrogen refueling stations within five years, extend hydrogen transport routes to most provinces and cities across the country, and continue to deepen its work in cutting-edge fields such as liquid hydrogen applications and intelligent driving.