Positive results for JERA’s ammonia co-firing trial at Japan’s coal power plant 

JERA, a Japanese power generator, announced the successful conclusion of a three-month trial at its Hekinan Thermal Power Station in Central Japan. In this trial, they co-fired ammonia and coal at a 20% ratio. The results were positive. 

In collaboration with IHI Corporation and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), JERA has been engaged in the NEDO-subsidized project titled “Development of Technologies for Carbon Recycling and Next-Generation Thermal Power Generation / Research, Development, and Demonstration of Technologies for Ammonia Co-Firing Thermal Power Generation.”