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Recently, Asahi Kasei announced that the company will commercialize the world's largest hydrogen production equipment in 2025
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Using renewable electricity, the project aims to reduce the price of hydrogen produced to 330 yen/kg by 2030, about 1/3 of the current circulating price
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The company said cost reductions in the hydrogen business will facilitate the formation of a hydrogen energy industry chain in Japan, which is critical to achieving carbon neutrality
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Asahi Kasei introduced that the hydrogen production facility is located in Namie-cho, Fukushima Prefecture.
The company is verifying equipment with a maximum output of 10 megawatts.
Based on the experimental results, it will start accepting orders from 2025 and supply it to Europe and the Middle East
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The company is also developing connection technology for multiple devices, and plans to scale up to 100 megawatts in the second half of the 2020s
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By promoting the mass production of large-scale equipment, the company plans to reduce the current equipment price of 1 kilowatt and 200,000 yen to 50,000 yen by 2030, which can reduce the hydrogen price to about 1/3 of the circulation price, which is similar to Japan's The government’s 2030 goals for hydrogen universalization are aligned
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