On June 20, Air Liquide Japan conducted locally an opening ceremony of Handa Kamezaki H2 Station. It is Air Liquide Japan’s 15th hydrogen station across the country and the 10th one in Aichi Prefecture alone.

In the opening ceremony Virginie Cavalli CEO of the company and the representatives of the companies concerned made inaugural speeches and a ribbon cutting ceremony. The Handa Kamezaki H2 Station has adopted an on-site system having a supply capacity of 500N㎥/h or more with a filling pressure of 82MPa at maximum.

The hydrogen supply source employs a hydrogen generating device which produces from city gas a volume of hydrogen equivalent to fill 50 to 60 FCVs per day.

The station has a function to back up the supply of hydrogen to other off-site type H2 stations at 9 locations in Aichi Prefecture, and plays the role of mother site provided with three trailers. Each trailer is said to be capable to load hydrogen equivalent to a volume to fill about 40 cars.

CEO Cavalli commented, “I am very pleased to see the inauguration of the Handa Kamezaki H2 Station thanks to the efforts of all the peopled concerned. We have been engaged for years globally with the development of hydrogen energy business on the concept that hydrogen should be the core for energy conversion. The hydrogen used for this H2 station is a so-called blue hydrogen, but we intend to concentrate our efforts to make greenish the hydrogen of our own, finding a land in the country where our electrolysis facility can be constructed and CCS/CCUS is possible.”