On January 18, the final of the 1st Global Sustainability Challenge (GSC) Asia-Pacific Region was successfully held at Zhejiang University. Hosted by the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University, this competition brought together outstanding students from top universities across the Asia-Pacific region, aiming to gather global youth intelligence to explore future-oriented solutions for sustainable development.

After fierce competition through project poster presentations and on-site defenses, ICARE students Jiaqi Peng and Changhong Huang won First Prize in the Asia-Pacific Regional Final with their project “AI-Enhanced Offshore and Onshore Green Hydrogen System Powered by Renewable Energy with Salt Cavern Storage”.

The project “AI-Enhanced Offshore and Onshore Green Hydrogen System Powered by Renewable Energy with Salt Cavern Storage” addresses key technical challenges under China’s “Dual Carbon” strategy and the global energy transition.

The team innovatively proposed an integrated scheme of “renewable energy-based hydrogen production – salt cavern hydrogen storage – intelligent dispatch”. By establishing a thermo-mechanical coupling model and an optimized random forest model, it provides strong technical support for the safe and efficient operation of salt cavern hydrogen storage systems.