The commercial scale system designed by the multinational Japanese conglomerate is supplying electricity to refrigerators and hot water to heating systems at a municipal wholesale flower and vegetable market in Shunan, Yamaguchi prefecture.
Toshiba’s system will utilise the H2 produced as a by-product at a local caustic soda plant operated by Tokyo-based Tokuyama Corporation, which is also installing a 100kW fuel cell to provide energy and heat to a swimming pool in the local area.
Hiroyuki Ota, General Manager of Toshiba’s Energy Systems & Solutions Company, highlighted, “We have harnessed our technology to realise a more efficient, environmentally-friendly pure H2 fuel cell that generates power and heat-free of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.”
The day-to-day performance of the system will be monitored to evaluate the use of by-product H2 as a fuel under the Ministry of the Environment’s Low-Carbon Hydrogen Supply Chain Project.
The Japanese corporation previously unveiled the country’s largest alkaline water electrolysis H2 production system in July 2016.
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