Areas of Activity Business Development

Takasago Thermal Engineering has been shaped by the many loyal customers we have served in the 100 years since our founding. In the past several years, our customers have decisively made major changes to confront the growing global challenges of energy, food, climate, and geopolitics. To be a partner in our customers’ transformation, we are developing a new Carbon Neutral Business to leverage the environmental technologies and engineering skills we have cultivated since our founding into creating and operating renewable energy. As an Environment-Creator^™, we, too, have entered a time of change.

To date, we have focused on activities in the area of using energy for buildings as our core business. We believe that technologies for creating and storing energy and technologies for linking usage to creation and storage will be indispensable for helping our customers achieve carbon neutrality (CN).

CN: Knowing is the First Step

Everything starts with knowing our customers’ goals for CN, their present circumstances, and the gaps between their goals and circumstances. Once we know, it is essential to think together with customers about roadmaps to achieving their goals.

As a partner in customer transformation, we will work together with our partner companies to address any shortcomings. We aim to establish an ecosystem where our partners invite more partners to develop new businesses we cannot provide alone. We will also make investments that will become capital over the long term so that we can partner on a deeper level.

Creating

Case study:
Hydro Creator^® water electrolyzer

We have developed and released a solid polymer (PEM) water electrolyzer that produces and supplies green hydrogen from renewable energy. In response to requests from customers, we are also developing a large machine (100 Nm³/h).

Relevant Links

• Technology & Services: “Green Hydrogen Production, Storage, and Utilization System”

Storing

Case study:
Mega Stock
adsorbent thermal storage system

The industrial sector is faced with the challenge of using waste heat to save more energy and further reduce CO₂. Around the world, a lot of heat is wasted. Mega Stock is a system that collects and stores previously unusable low-temperature waste heat (80℃ to 200℃) and waste heat up to roughly 300℃ and utilizes it for heating, dehumidifying, drying, and other tasks at different times and locations.

Relevant Links

• Technology & Services: “Mega Stock Technology for Recovering, Storing, and Utilizing Low-Temperature Waste Heat”

Linking

We are developing an energy management system (EMS) that links energy usage to energy creation and storage, and are considering how to accommodate demand response (DR), the electricity balancing market, and more.

Municipal CN has also entered an active stage as evidenced by zero-carbon city declarations and decarbonization-leading regions. We have concluded comprehensive partnership agreements with the cities of Tsukubamirai and Namegata in Ibaraki Prefecture and the town of Kitahiroshima in Hiroshima Prefecture to contribute to solving local issues from the first step of knowing.

Press release: “Takasago Thermal Engineering Concludes Comprehensive Partnership Agreement with City of Tsukubamirai” (August 6, 2020) (396.7 KB)

Press release: “Takasago Thermal Engineering Concludes Comprehensive Partnership Agreement for Realization of Zero-Carbon Town with Town of Kitahiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture” (March 24, 2023) (416.4 KB)

Press release: “Takasago Thermal Engineering Concludes Comprehensive Partnership Agreement for Local Revitalization with City of Namegata, Ibaraki Prefecture” (May 15, 2023)

Establishing a resilient hydrogen system in the microgrid of the Atsuta District of Ishikari

During power outages, electricity is supplied to the gymnasium of Atsutagakuen—a designated evacuation center—for at least 72 hours, drawing power from a photovoltaic system and storage batteries as well as green hydrogen fuel cells charged during normal times.

The equipment of the microgrid is operated, maintained, and managed by Ishikari Atsuta Green Energy Co., Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary) and funded by the electricity fees paid by Ishikari residents.

Relevant Links

• Technology & Services: “Green Hydrogen Production, Storage, and Utilization System”

• Special feature: “Contributing to the environment and the future through the use of hydrogen: Carbon Neutrality”