Nittobo Co., Ltd. (Nittobo) installed a 3MW solar power generation facility using an on-site PPA (power purchase agreement) model at the Nittobo Tokuyama Business Center in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture and will begin operations from February 2024. Start. It was announced on October 25.
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It will be installed on the center's old grounds and on the roof of the factory's wholly-owned subsidiary Nittobo Medical (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). The Nitto Bo Medical installation will utilize the Ministry of Environment's ``Grant for Carbon Dioxide Emission Control Measures Project Cost'' in the 2nd supplementary budget for fiscal year 2020.
The PPA operator is Kansai Electric Power Company. The electricity generated will be consumed internally. The annual electricity generation is expected to be 3,284 MWh and the annual CO2 emission reduction effect will be about 1,600 tons. The center's annual electricity consumption will be about 90,000 MWh.
In addition, the company will conduct a demonstration experiment in February 2024 to convert the combustion method to "hydrogen and oxygen" in a municipal gas and oxygen-fired glass furnace at the Fukushima plant under the business division fiberglass company in Fukushima City. . Start from. We will start with a replacement of about 10% and in the future aim to burn all hydrogen and oxygen. It was announced on October 10.
A portion of the city's gas burners in the glass melting furnace will be replaced with hydrogen-burning burners. Hydrogen will be supplied from a self-loader and the ``hydrogen/oxygen'' combustion method will be applied in addition to the city gas combustion method. Data will be collected through short-term combustion experiments and will be considered for further large-scale hydrogen combustion tests.
The combustion process used in the group's fiberglass production has changed from initially heavy oil to LNG (liquefied natural gas) and then to gas/natural gas. Since fiscal year 2011, we have gradually rolled out "natural gas/pure oxygen" combustion to all furnaces and have succeeded in reducing CO2 emissions by more than 40% compared to air combustion .
Part of the cost will be subsidized by the "Fukushima Prefecture Decarbonization-Related Technology Development Commercialization Feasibility Study Project" 2025 and will be implemented in collaboration with Fukushima Prefecture and Fukushima City . In addition, part of the hydrogen used will be supplied from renewable energy produced at the Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R).
The company aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 compared to 2013 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
