November Hydrogen Storage Conference as Industry Targets New Energy Applications-the Chinese Rare Earth Monopoly and Innovation Downstream

Highlights

• CREIA's Hydrogen Storage Materials Branch will hold its annual conference November 18–20 in Xiamen, hosted by Xiamen Tungsten Hydrogen Energy Technology.
• China's hydrogen storage strategy targets lanthanum and cerium, lower-value rare earths that could improve processing economics across the rare earth basket.
• Western manufacturers face supply chain risk as China integrates rare earth separation, alloy production, battery manufacturing, and hydrogen technology under one ecosystem.
• Solid-state hydrogen storage remains commercially unproven; key metrics include storage capacity per kilogram, cycle durability, delivered cost, and manufacturing scale.