The NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) — a joint venture between ACWA Power, Air Products and NEOM — has reached approximately 90% construction completion on what will be the world’s largest utility-scale green hydrogen facility, with commercial production targeting December 2026.
Located at Oxagon in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, the $8.4 billion plant integrates 4 gigawatts of solar and wind energy to produce up to 600 tonnes of carbon-free hydrogen per day, transported as green ammonia under a 30-year off-take agreement with Air Products. When operational, the facility is expected to cut up to 5 million tonnes of CO₂ annually — equivalent to removing more than one million cars from the road.
For the UAE, the proximity of this project matters. A world-scale green hydrogen facility operating commercially on the Arabian Peninsula confirms that green hydrogen is no longer a theoretical energy source for this region — it is being built at industrial scale, in the same climate, on the same peninsula, right now.
The technologies proven at NEOM — solar-to-hydrogen conversion, large-scale storage, commercial off-take agreements — are the same technologies Ultra Energy deploys at property scale for UAE clients. The gap between utility-scale and property-scale green hydrogen systems is narrowing rapidly, driven precisely by projects like this.
Source: NEOM Green Hydrogen Project — Arab News / The Saudi Times
