Japanese plant achieves lower emissions with GE Vernova’s HA gas turbines

During the winter months in 2021, the United Nations Secretary General urged countries that the organization considered “major carbon emitters” to adopt “much more ambitious emissions reductions targets for 2030.” The Land of the Rising Sun falls into that category.

Consistent with its own 6th Strategic Energy Plan—which the Japanese government ratified in October that same year—the country is committed to reducing its GHG levels to at least 62% below 2013 levels by 2030 and at least 82% by 2040 as it works toward net-zero by 2050.

One of the ways that Japanese power companies are working toward this goal involves updating the internal machinery of their operating facilities with the latest, most efficient technology available. At the Futtsu Power Station outside of Tokyo, JERA Co., Inc., performed a complete replacement of the facilities’ original gas turbines with GE Vernova’s latest 9HA.01 heavy duty gas turbines and associated equipment—including the Mark* VIe distributed control system (DCS).

With the upgraded Futtsu Power Station Group 4 becoming operational in August 2023, the plant is now supplying cleaner burning electricity to Tokyo homes and businesses via LNG fuel. And with GE Vernova’s technology, the plant is also now primed to co-fire zero-carbon fuels such as ammonia and hydrogen in the future.