TOKYO:

Japan-based Kawasaki Heavy Industries on Thursday announced its goal of achieving carbon neutrality at its factories and national offices by 2030 using electricity produced by a 100 megawatt (MW) hydrogen power plant it plans to build.

The company is trying to make hydrogen a key growth engine by building liquefied hydrogen transporters, hydrogen power plants and other facilities to create a global fuel supply chain that can help decarbonize fuel. industries and facilitate the global energy transition.

Kawasaki aims to transport 225,000 tonnes of liquefied hydrogen from overseas to Japan in 2030 and use 45,000 tonnes in the new hydrogen power plant planned to supply electricity to its domestic sites.

Using energy-saving technology and carbon dioxide separation and capture technology, the company aims to reduce emissions from its national sites from 300,000 tonnes in 2021 to net zero in 2030.

“It is our role to show everyone a path to carbon neutrality using hydrogen … we want to demonstrate that it is doable and that costs can be reduced,” said Yasuhiko Hashimoto, president of Kawasaki Heavy , journalists and analysts.

The company plans to reduce the cost of hydrogen to 30 yen per normal cubic meter by 2030, from 170 yen supposedly in a 500 million Australian dollars ($ 358 million) pilot project, led by Kawasaki, to ship its first shipment of liquefied hydrogen from Australia to Japan. , expected early next year.

Kawasaki’s goal is to increase its hydrogen-related sales, including carriers, power generation equipment and license fees, to 300 billion yen ($ 2.6 billion) by 2030 and to 2,000 billion yen in 2050.

“We are receiving many requests from all over the world to collaborate in the field of hydrogen,” said Hahimoto.

Kawasaki and German energy company RWE announced Thursday that they plan to collaborate on an industrial-scale hydrogen production demonstration project in Lingen, Germany.

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