Partnership Agreement with Mie Prefecture and Yokkaichi City Aimed at Making the Yokkaichi Industrial Complex Carbon Neutral 2025/08/12
— Seeking to Achieve GX Development and the Upgrading of Industry Through Infrastructure Sharing and Utilization as a Hydrogen and Ammonia Terminal —
JERA Co., Inc. has today concluded an agreement with Mie Prefecture and Yokkaichi City to partner and cooperate in aiming to maintain and develop the Yokkaichi Industrial Complex.
The following companies have each also concluded a similar agreement with Mie Prefecture and Yokkaichi City: Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.; Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.; ENEOS Materials Corporation; KH Neochem Co., Ltd.; Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.; SHOWA YOKKAICHI SEKIYU CO., LTD.; JSR Corporation; Tosoh Corporation; Toho Gas Co., Ltd.; Air Liquide Japan; and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.
As one of Japan’s leading petrochemical industrial complexes, the Yokkaichi Industrial Complex produces energy-related products, materials, and feedstocks derived from fossil fuels, providing a foundation for industrial activity. At the same time, its manufacturing processes emit CO2, and further growth will require pushing forward with a green transformation (GX)—utilizing carbon-free energy sources like hydrogen and ammonia and changing manufacturing processes—that fosters the emergence of new industries.
JERA believes that embedding GX in society demands advancing GX in parallel with efforts to promote higher-value-added industrial activity, and that it will be necessary to work with other companies that aim to transition to fuels like hydrogen and ammonia to integrate the promotion of GX with elevating the value-added of all industries clustered at the industrial complex. (See 27 June 2025 JERA briefing materials.)
To address these issues, we will, under the agreement, advance discussion of the following at a meeting which Mie Prefecture and Yokkaichi City are considering establishing:
• Discussions aimed at maintaining and developing the Yokkaichi Industrial Complex
• Discussions aimed at making the Yokkaichi Industrial Complex carbon neutral
(Utilization as a hydrogen and ammonia terminal, sharing of infrastructure facilities, etc.)
• Other matters determined to contribute to achieving the aims of the agreement
JERA, under its JERA Zero CO2 Emissions 2050 commitment, aims to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions from our domestic and international operations by 2050. We are moving to adopt greener fuels for thermal power generation as we pursue zero-emissions thermal that emits no CO2 during power generation. We will move forward in public-private partnership to achieve carbon neutrality at Yokkaichi Industrial Complex and aim for its sustainable maintenance and development as an industrial base, including discussions that start from its utilization as a large-scale hydrogen and ammonia fuel terminal aimed at zeroing out emissions at JERA thermal power plants.
Through these efforts, JERA will co-create a system in which high-quality products and services are priced accordingly. By embedding GX in society as something that has value, we aim for a prosperous society in which things that have value can be offered and consumed at prices commensurate with their value.
