Artificial island a hub for green energy

The 3-square-kilometer Yangguang Island in Rudong county, Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, is known as a hub for liquefied natural gas (LNG).

There are four LNG terminals, completed or under construction, on this island. One of them, the PetroChina Jiangsu LNG terminal, has the largest storage capacity and the strongest peak shaving capacity among any terminal of its kind in the Yangtze River Delta region. It can supply a maximum of 39 million cubic meters of gas a day, sufficient to meet the needs of one-third of consumers in Jiangsu.

LNG terminals on Yangguang Island. [Photo provided by the CPC Nantong municipal committee]

Recently, a LNG vessel from Marshall Islands docked at Yangkou Port on Yangguang Island, bringing 66,000 metric tons of LNG, which is first stored on the island and then distributed to other places through pipelines and tank cars.

The planned annual unloading capacity of Yangkou Port is 20 million tons, the largest in the country, and is expected to reach 25 to 30 million tons by the end of 2025, making the port a national-level base for LNG unloading, storage, and sale.

Yangguang Island, an artificial island built in 2008, has China's best deep-water channels for LNG tankers, according to Zhou Liang, head of the administrative committee of Yangkou Port Economic Development Zone.