Chiyoda Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation today said that they have agreed to jointly develop a large-scale hydrogen electrolysis system and start a strategic partnership. They have signed a basic agreement on cooperation. This awakened Demonstration Project was proposed to and adopted by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)* as one of the projects for the “Development of Technologies for Realizing a Hydrogen Society / Development of Technologies for Regional Hydrogen Utilization.” In short, Japanese industries are increasingly embracing the switch to a carbon fuel free society. The goal is to contribute to achieving the Japanese government targets for the introduction of electrolysis equipment both in Japan and overseas as part of the Basic Strategy on Hydrogen formulated by the government. [1]

With the signing of this deal, the introduction of an electrolysis system in Hydrogen Park at the Toyota Honsha Plant will start in FY2025. It will be expanded in the future to the 10 MW class and used for verification and development. Any further developments will be released as they happen, Toyota said.

The production and mass production technologies for electrolysis cell stacks using the fuel cell technology held by Toyota and the processing plant design technologies and large-scale plant construction technologies held by Chiyoda will be brought together to develop a large-scale electrolysis system that can be competitive. This will allow adaptation to the rapidly expanding hydrogen production markets both inside and outside Japan. Both companies will exhibit at the H2&FC EXPO (organized by RX Japan Ltd., held from Feb. 28 to Mar. 1, 2024) held at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo).