Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TMNA) will build the world’s first megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant with a hydrogen (H2) fuelling station to support its operations at the Port of Long Beach in California.
Announced today at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the Tri-Gen facility will use bio-waste sourced from California agricultural waste to generate water, electricity and H2.
When it comes online in 2020, Tri-Gen will generate approximately 2.35MW of electricity and 1.2 tons of H2 per day, enough to power the equivalent of about 2,350 average-sized homes and meet the daily driving needs of nearly 1,500 vehicles. The power generation facility will be 100% renewable, supplying Toyota Logistics Services’ (TLS) operations at the Port and making them the first Toyota facility in North America to use 100% renewable power.
Doug Murtha, Toyota’s Group Vice-President of Strategic Planning, said, “Tri-Gen is a major step forward for sustainable mobility and a key accomplishment of our 2050 Environmental Challenge to achieve net zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from our operations.”
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