Mitsubishi Power to set up hydrogen facility in Japan

Mitsubishi Power, a unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), will establish a hydrogen demonstration facility in Japan, it said on February 22.

The Takasago Hydrogen Park will be the world’s first centre for validation of hydrogen-related technologies, from hydrogen production to power generation, the company said.

The facility will be co-located at the gas turbine development and manufacturing facility of MHI’s Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo Prefecture, to support the commercialisation of hydrogen gas turbines using hydrogen as fuel.

Mitsubishi Power plans to expand the Takasago Hydrogen Park. It has already announced its 30% hydrogen co-firing for large frame gas turbines and will use Takasago Hydrogen Park to commercialise small and large frame gas turbines on a path to 100% hydrogen firing starting in 2025, MHI said.

Takasago Hydrogen Park will be located adjacent to the T-Point 2 combined cycle power plant validation facility. Mitsubishi Power is beginning to test and demonstrate operations of technologies including hydrogen production and storage and hydrogen fuelling of gas turbines, aiming to commence operations in the 2023 fiscal year.

The hydrogen production facility utilises a water electrolysis system, and Mitsubishi Power plans to conduct successive testing and verification of other next-generation hydrogen production technologies such as turquoise-hydrogen production by pyrolysis of methane into hydrogen and solid carbon.