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

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

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

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

An additional enhance in energy demand for knowledge facilities is anticipated in the long term because of the development of applied sciences that require large-volume knowledge processing, akin to generative AI and automatic driving. Within the face of this market surroundings, by using by-product hydrogen and FCs to energy distributed knowledge facilities, the Challenge Members purpose to facilitate the decarbonization of information facilities and the digital transformation of municipalities and native companies.

Primarily based on the information gained from this Demonstration Challenge, the Challenge Members will look into the feasibility of the set up and growth of information 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 Challenge:

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

Factors of Demonstration:

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

Demonstration interval:

From the fiscal 12 months ending March 31, 2024 via the fiscal 12 months ending March 31, 2026.

Enterprise construction:

SOURCE: Honda