Nippon Kayaku and Okamura use solar power with on-site PPA at production sites
Solar panels installed on the premises of the Fukuyama Plant of Nippon Kayaku
(Source: Joint release by Nippon Kayaku and Urban Energy)
Solar panels installed on the premises of the Fukuyama Plant of Nippon Kayaku
(Source: Joint release by Nippon Kayaku and Urban Energy)
Zero Emi Plan On-site service provision image
(Source: Joint release by Nippon Kayaku and Urban Energy)
Okamura Gotemba Office
(Source: Okamura)
There are an increasing number of cases where companies are introducing on-site PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) model photovoltaic power generation facilities at their manufacturing bases. Nippon Kayaku will introduce a 1.9 MW mega-solar (large-scale photovoltaic power generation facility) on the premises of its Fukuyama Plant in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, in March. In addition, Okamura introduced 513kW of solar power to its Gotemba office in Gotemba City, Shizuoka Prefecture in February.
Nippon Kayaku will introduce the "Zero Emi Plan Onsite Service", an onsite PPA (power purchase agreement) model solar power generation service provided by Urban Energy. The output of the solar panel is 1942kW, and the output of the power conditioner (PCS) is 1493kW. The annual power generation is expected to be 1,689 MWh, and the annual CO2 emission reduction effect will be 731 tons (average value for 20 years). Covers 20% of power consumption.
The Nippon Kayaku Group aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1+2) from business activities by 32.5% compared to FY2019 by FY2030, and to achieve carbon neutrality by FY2050. As one of the countermeasures, we aim to convert purchased electricity to renewable energy.
Okamura installed 1,152 solar panels on the roof of its Gotemba office. The output of the solar panel is 513kW. Annual power generation is expected to be about 570 MWh, and the annual CO2 emission reduction effect will be about 250 tons. It can cover less than 10% of power consumption. The PPA operator is ORIX.
The Okamura Group is promoting the switch to renewable energy-derived power at its production bases and the installation of self-consumption solar power generation equipment. This is the first time for solar power to be introduced using the on-site PPA model.
In order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, we have set a 50% reduction in Scope 1+2 and a 25% reduction in Scope 3 compared to FY 2020 as our target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in FY 2030. In October 2022, it acquired SBT certification by the international initiative "SBTi".
