Kawasaki Heavy aims for domestic carbon neutrality in 2030 with hydrogen power

• 2 years ago (2021-12-10)
• David Flin

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Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries has announced that it aims to achieve carbon neutrality in its domestic factories and officers in 2030 through a 100 MW hydrogen-fuelled power plant it will build.

Kawasaki will import 225 000 tonnes of liquefied hydrogen in 2030 and use 45 000 tonnes at the planned new hydrogen power plant to provide electricity to its domestic sites. It will also use energy saving technology and CO2 separation and capture technology to bring emission levels at its domestic sites down from 300 000 tonnes in 2021 to net zero in 2030.

Kawasaki and German energy company RWE will collaborate in a hydrogen-to-power demonstration project on industrial scale in Lingen, Germany. Yasuhiko Hashimoto, President of Kawasaki Heavy, said: “It’s our role to show everyone a pathway to carbon neutrality using hydrogen. We want to demonstrate that it is feasible, and costs can be reduced. We are getting many enquiries from all over the world to collaborate in hydrogen business.”