Apart from technical factors such as hydrogen production efficiency, the
proper geographical distribution of renewable energy bases is essential
for promoting large-scale hydrogen production from renewable energy
sources on a provincial scale. This paper establishes a hydrogen
production capacity planning method that takes into account the
distribution of renewable energy bases. Based on the trading pattern of
the hydrogen energy market in regions with a high proportion of
renewable energy, a non-cooperative game pattern of hydrogen production
capacity is constructed, where energy hubs acts as players, hydrogen
production capacity acts as a strategy, and the minimum cost of hydrogen
is a payment. On this basis, hydrogen production, transportation and
consumption models are constructed by combining renewable energy
utilization rate, population, and transportation network. Thereby, a
non-cooperative game planning method for provincial hydrogen production
capacity is proposed, and the gaming problem is transformed into an
optimization problem solved iteratively to minimize the global hydrogen
production cost. Furthermore, the provincial hydrogen production
capacity planning arithmetic is constructed with the data of Qinghai
Province. The equilibrium solution of the game with eight energy hub
nodes as players is obtained, and the effectiveness of the model is
verified. Finally, the impacts of population changes, installed
renewable energy production capacity and industrial electricity prices
on hydrogen production capacity planning and regional hydrogen costs are
quantitatively analyzed.