Special feature Contributing to the environment and the future through the use of hydrogen
Carbon Neutrality
Microgrid operation project utilizing green hydrogen
We will produce green hydrogen using electricity derived from renewable energy sources, which contributes to decarbonization, and help create added value for our customers.
New establishment of the
Carbon Neutral Business
Development Division
The Government of Japan announced its Carbon Neutrality Declaration in which it aims to have net-zero GHG emissions, including of CO2, by 2050. In order to respond to this social need, we have established our Carbon Neutral Business Development Division. We aim to build a business model of “Tsunagu” (connective) business connecting the generation, storage, and consumption process with hydrogen at the core by utilizing our environmental technologies and cooperating with local governments and companies as well as academia, start-ups, and others with cuttingedge technologies that are working to achieve carbon neutrality.
We are also providing our customers facing environmental challenges with a variety of technologies we have developed to contribute to solving global issues.
A microgrid for
low carbon emissions
Awarded the grand prize in the project category of the NIKKEI Net Zero Carbon Award 2021
In the Atsuta district of Ishikari City, we have created a “microgrid that realizes low carbon emissions with disaster prevention functions” by introducing solar power generation, storage batteries, and our proprietary green hydrogen utilization technology. By establishing a self-supporting energy system based on renewable energy, this microgrid contributes to global environmental conservation, and at the same time has succeeded in improving the safety of community life by implementing advanced disaster prevention functions.
Ishikari City (Photograph courtesy of Ishikari City)
Future business prospects
As the main source of renewable energy, solar power generation facilities are the most widespread in Japan. In addition, a large amount of wind power generation is planned to be introduced going forward. On the other hand, the constraints of the power system require output suppression, which leads to lower utilization rates. By combining the power system with storage batteries and green hydrogen to mutually complement functions and add value, it is expected to improve the facility operation rate when a large amount of renewable electricity is introduced.
By utilizing the know-how we have cultivated in air conditioning equipment engineering, we will contribute to our customers’ decarbonization and carbon neutrality by providing renewable energy, including “green hydrogen,” which emits no CO2 throughout the entire process from production to use.
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Tackling the challenge of resource development on the Moon
In recent years, it has been shown that there may be water resources on the Moon, and there is a movement toward the establishment of a lunar economic zone to utilize these resources. If hydrogen and oxygen can be generated from lunar water resources using water electrolysis-based systems, oxygen can be used to sustain life, and hydrogen can be used as fuel for rockets, lunar rovers, and the like. We are currently installing the world’s smallest and lightest water electrolysis device on a lunar lander provided by the space venture company ispace, taking on the challenge of the first-ever hydrogen and oxygen generation demonstration experiment in a lunar environment.
Participation in a panel discussion at the 1st Lunar Business Conference
As a member of the Lunar Industry Vision Council, a working group for government-academia-industry collaboration, we submitted our lunar industry vision to then-Minister of State for Space Policy Inoue in July 2021, and are promoting efforts to build a lunar business ecosystem. At the 1st Lunar Business Conference held by the Lunar Industry Vision Council in August 2022, panel discussions were held for each field. A panelist from our company in the field of “Impact of Lunar Water Resources on Industry Creation” provided an explanation of the progress and future plans of research and development for hydrogen production on the Moon.
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