Japanese industrial gas supplier Air Water is planning to build a new biomass power generation plant, taking advantage of the country's feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme.
Nihon Kaisui, a subsidiary of Air Water, will build a 50MW biomass power plant at Kanda in western Japan's Fukuoka prefecture. The company plans to start construction in April 2021, with commissioning targeted in October 2023.
The new plant is designed to burn palm kernel shells and domestically supplied woody materials as generation feedstock, with total consumption estimated at around 280,000 t/yr.
The project will be developed by joint-venture firm Nihon Kaisui TTS Kanda Power, which is 68pc owned by Nihon Kaisui, 30pc by renewable power developer TTS Planning and 2pc by plant builder Takuma.
The planned Kanda plant follows Air Water's Ako project to build a 30MW No.2 biomass power unit in Hyogo prefecture by September 2020. The company has started commercial operations at the 16.53MW No.1 biomass power unit at Ako since 2015. The No.1 plant was built as a facility to dry salt water and produce salt using steam.
