CG image of the hydrogen production and hydrogenation plants in Brunei Darussalam at which hydrogen will be created by the project led by AHEAD*. Construction has been underway since April 2018, and operations are scheduled to begin in 2020. Hideki Endo, the president of AHEAD, says that by 2040, renewable energy will be the main source of CO2-free hydrogen.12by ship at ambient temperature and pressure to Japan, and extracted at a plant in Kawasaki City using technology developed by Chiyoda Corporation, so it can be used in thermal power generation. According to Hideki Endo, president of the Advanced Hydrogen Energy Chain Association for Technology Development (AHEAD*), which is organizing the demonstration project, “Liquefying hydrogen by chemical reaction reduces its volume by a factor of 500, which allows large quantities to be transported effi ciently. Because this can be done at ambient temperature and pressure, the existing infrastructure can be used.” The other project is being organized by the CO2-free Hydrogen Energy Supply-Chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA**), which aims to utilize brown coal from Australia. Brown coal—the sleeping giant of global energy resources—contains so much moisture and spontaneous FEATURE Seeds of SDGsiven the urgent desirability of climate action—one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—hydrogen is increasingly seen as part of a green energy that does not emit CO2 when used for energy. Beyond being green, hydrogen can be produced from many different resources, and strengthens energy security by making it possible to diversify procurement risk. Japan has long taken hydrogen seriously as an energy source and already leads the world in fuel cell vehicle technology. Now it is working to promote the global utilization of hydrogen, such as by hosting the Hydrogen Energy Ministerial meeting in October 2018, in which 21 countries, regions and organizations participated. To realize a hydrogen energy infrastructure, costs must be lowered. With the goal of building a global supply chain that can produce and convey large quantities of hydrogen, procured from inexpensive resources anywhere in the world, two demonstration projects, subsidized by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), are scheduled to launch in 2020. One project involves transporting hydrogen from Brunei Darussalam to Japan. Hydrogen produced from surplus natural gas will be liquefied by chemical reaction, transported *AHEAD; Chiyoda Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Nippon Yusen Kabushiki KaishaThe world’s first demonstration projects for hydrogen supply chains aims at the wider use of carbon-free, next-generation energyOpening the Way to a Hydrogen SocietyG
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