Ammonia
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【News】Challenges in Ammonia Supply, Saijo Power Station Withdraws its Successful Bid from Decarbonization Auction
Shikoku Electric Power Company announced that it would withdraw its successful bid for the Saijo Power Station Unit 1 in the FY2024 Long-Term Decarbonized Power Source Auction.
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【News】Ammonia co-firing cannot be viable without price gap support
A grant support for “price gap” has been awarded to JERA. However, ammonia co-firing with coal is a business that cannot succeed without government support.
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【News】Mazda canceled “Ammonia Mono-firing Power Plant” Plan
Mazda ditches ammonia plans at Hiroshima coal power plant. The company aims to switch from coal-fired power to a cogeneration system using city gas by 2030.
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【Report】Japan’s Ammonia Strategy: Excessive costs signal need for alternatives in the power sector
Financial consultant released an analysis of the economic impact of ammonia co-firing, “Japan’s Ammonia Strategy: Excessive costs signal need for alternatives in the power sector.”
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【News】Japan continues pushing ammonia, not so-called “decarbonized fuel”
Japan is steadily putting systems in place for the use of ammonia fuel both domestically and internationally. Here we explain problems with ammonia co-firing.
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【News】JERA begins demonstration test of 20% ammonia co-firing at Hekinan Thermal Power Station
JERA, Japan’s largest thermal power generation company, started a demonstration test of 20% ammonia co-firing at its Hekinan Unit 4 on April 1.
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【Report】Kiko Network releases position paper on fuel ammonia
On July 7, 2023, Kiko Network released “Position paper on fuel ammonia: Japan’s “Zero Emissions” thermal power will extend the life of coal and accelerate climate change”.
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【Report】CREA: Air quality implications of coal-ammonia co-firing
CREA published its report “Air quality implications of coal-ammonia co-firing”, which shows the impacts of coal-ammonia co-firing at Japan’s Hekinan Thermal Power Station Unit 4.
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【News】Does the rest of the world really approve of Japan’s hydrogen/ammonia strategy?
The G7 Environment Ministers’ Meeting, co-chaired by Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Yasutoshi Nishimura and Environment Minister Akihiro Minister Nishimura, highlighted the gap between Japan’s views and those of the G6.
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【News】Transition Zero Warns Against Ammonia Co-firing in Japan
Transition Zero’s “Japan’s toxic narrative on ammonia” illustrates how ammonia co-firing with coal in Asian countries is a massive waste of capital and could have a negative impact on climate change.
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【Report】 E3G releases “Challenging Japan’s promotion of ammonia co-firing for coal power generation”
Global think tank E3G released “Challenging Japan’s promotion of ammonia co-firing for coal power generation”, which highlights the problems of fuel ammonia.
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【News】Hydrogen/Ammonia, CCS/CCUS related information
JBC provides a list of reports and papers on the technologies related to Japan’s decarbonization strategy.
