It was found that Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture, where the nuclear power plant is located, will cooperate with Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. in a new business that utilizes the power generated by the nuclear power plant to produce hydrogen, which is attracting attention as the next-generation energy.
This is the first effort in Japan to produce hydrogen from the surplus electricity of a nuclear power plant.
Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture will be working on a new business, and will start next year in cooperation with Kansai Electric Power Company.
Tsuruga City, where the nuclear power plant is located, is working on research and development of hydrogen energy as a new industry alongside nuclear power, such as installing a hydrogen station that supplies hydrogen to fuel cell vehicles of public vehicles.
The new initiative is a demonstration project in which surplus electricity generated at the Kansai Electric Power Company's nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture is sent to a hydrogen station at midnight and used as energy to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen, and emits carbon dioxide during the manufacturing process. I want to check if "zero carbon" is possible.
Hydrogen is attracting attention as the next-generation energy for the realization of a carbon-free society, but it is the first time in Japan that hydrogen is produced from electricity generated by nuclear power plants.
Tsuruga City says, "We would like to cooperate so that society as a whole can play a role while working toward the realization of'zero carbon'."