Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda), Tokuyama Company (Tokuyama), and Mitsubishi Company (MC) (“Venture Members”) will conduct a joint demonstration to function a knowledge middle utilizing by-product hydrogen and a stationary gas cell (FC) energy station designed to reuse FC programs from gas cell electrical automobiles (FCEVs). (“Demonstration Venture”).

This Demonstration Venture was proposed to and adopted by the New Vitality and Industrial Know-how Growth Group (NEDO) as one of many tasks for the “Growth of Applied sciences for Realizing a Hydrogen Society / Growth of Applied sciences for Regional Hydrogen Utilization.”

This Demonstration Venture might be performed in Shunan Metropolis, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan utilizing by-product hydrogen produced by Tokuyama’s salt water electrolysis enterprise to provide electrical energy to a distributed knowledge middle operated by MC from a stationary gas cell energy station that Honda will develop based mostly on the idea of reusing gas cells from FCEVs.

Venture Members will discover the potential of reusing automotive FC programs in a stationary software. The target of the Demonstration Venture is to cut back the financial burden on clients putting in and working stationary FC programs, which is able to contribute to the decarbonization of the electrical energy.

An extra improve in energy demand for knowledge facilities is predicted in the long term as a result of development of applied sciences that require large-volume knowledge processing, comparable to generative AI and automatic driving. Within the face of this market atmosphere, by using by-product hydrogen and FCs to energy distributed knowledge facilities, the Venture Members intention to facilitate the decarbonization of knowledge facilities and the digital transformation of municipalities and native companies.

Primarily based on the data gained from this Demonstration Venture, the Venture Members will look into the feasibility of the set up and enlargement of knowledge facilities utilizing clear energy within the area, in addition to discover additional enterprise alternatives each inside and outdoors Japan.

<Overview of the joint demonstration>

The official title of the Demonstration Venture:

Decarbonizing knowledge facilities utilizing by-product hydrogen and a stationary FC energy station reusing gas cell programs from automobile purposes

Factors of Demonstration:

• Confirm using gas cells in 1) major and backup energy sources for knowledge facilities; and a pair of) grid-balancing (Balancing Market)
• Confirm the economics and feasibility of built-in hydrogen enterprise fashions working gas cells and supplying hydrogen.

Demonstration interval:

From the fiscal yr ending March 31, 2024 by way of the fiscal yr ending March 31, 2026.

Enterprise construction:

SOURCE: Honda