Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda), Tokuyama Company (Tokuyama), and Mitsubishi Company (MC) (“Mission Members”) will conduct a joint demonstration to function an information heart utilizing by-product hydrogen and a stationary gas cell (FC) energy station designed to reuse FC techniques from gas cell electrical autos (FCEVs). (“Demonstration Mission”).

This Demonstration Mission 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 Mission shall 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 information heart operated by MC from a stationary gas cell energy station that Honda will develop primarily based on the idea of reusing gas cells from FCEVs.

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

An extra enhance in energy demand for information facilities is predicted in the long term as a result of development of applied sciences that require large-volume information processing, similar to generative AI and automatic driving. Within the face of this market setting, by using by-product hydrogen and FCs to energy distributed information facilities, the Mission Members intention 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 Mission, the Mission Members will look into the feasibility of the set up and enlargement of information facilities utilizing clear energy within the area, in addition to discover additional enterprise alternatives each inside and out of doors Japan.

<Overview of the joint demonstration>

The official title of the Demonstration Mission:

Decarbonizing information facilities utilizing by-product hydrogen and a stationary FC energy station reusing gas cell techniques from car purposes

Factors of Demonstration:

• Confirm using gas cells in 1) main and backup energy sources for information 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 the fiscal yr ending March 31, 2026.

Enterprise construction:

SOURCE: Honda