Press Release Back Number(2007)

Chubu Electric to Purchase CO2 Emissions Credits from CDM Projects

April 12, 2007
Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Chubu Electric has opted to purchase new CO2 emissions credits from CDM projects based on the Kyoto Mechanisms in the People's Republic of China and Republic of Korea (South Korea).


Chubu Electric will continue the fight against global warming by working with CO2 reduction projects and taking other measures.


1. Project to recover and decompose N2O from nitric acid production plant in Henan Province, People's Republic of China

Chubu Electric has agreed to purchase CO2 emissions credits from a project to recover and decompose N2O (nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas with 310 times the global warming potential of CO2) emitted from a nitric acid production plant belonging to Kai Feng Jinkai chemical Industry Co., Ltd. of Henan Province, People's Republic of China.

< Partner in agreement >

Mitsubishi Corporation

< Amount of purchase planned >

About 950,000 tons of CO2

< Timeframe of purchase >

2007 - 2012

2. Project to recover and decompose N2O from nitric acid production plant in Ulsan City, Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Chubu Electric has agreed to purchase CO2 emissions credits from a project to recover and decompose N2O (nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas with 310 times the global warming potential of CO2) emitted from a nitric acid production plant belonging to Hanwha Corporation of Ulsan City, Republic of Korea.

With this agreement, Chubu Electric will be purchasing CO2 emissions credits from the Republic of Korea for the first time.

< Partner in agreement >

Mitsubishi Corporation

< Amount of purchase planned >

About 510,000 tons of CO2

< Timeframe of purchase >

2007 - 2012

3. Wind energy project in Hebei Province, People's Republic of China

Chubu Electric has agreed to purchase CO2 emissions credits from a wind energy project by Hebei Construction Investment Zhangjiakou Wind Energy Co., Ltd. of Hebei Province, People's Republic of China.

< Partner in agreement >

Hebei Construction Investment Zhangjiakou Wind Energy Co., Ltd.

< Amount of purchase planned >

About 450,000 tons of CO2

< Timeframe of purchase >

2007 - 2012


< Reference >
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
A system under which industrialized nations donate funds or technology to greenhouse gas reduction projects in industrializing nations and count part of the resulting reductions as their own.


< Attachment 1 >

Chubu Electric initiatives using the Kyoto Mechanisms
Project Overview
World Bank Carbon Funds
(PCF)
  • • A fund established in 2000 to play a pioneering role in the design of Kyoto Mechanism systems.
  • • The fund purchases CO2 credits and allots them to investors.
  • • Fund size: $180 million (Chubu Electric's investment: $10 million).
  • • Investors include Japan Bank for International Cooperation, eight Japanese companies, and European governments and companies.
Japan GHG Reduction Fund
(JGRF)
  • • Asia's first greenhouse gas reduction fund, established in 2004.
  • • The fund purchases CO2 credits and allots them to investors.
  • • Fund size: $141.5 million (Chubu Electric's investment: $10 million).
  • • Investors include Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Development Bank of Japan and 31 Japanese companies.
Asian environmental funds
  • • Joined the Global/Asia Clean Energy Services Fund, which invests in multiple small-scale initiatives, especially ESCO projects, in FY2003.
  • • Have invested in small-scale hydropower in India and China, biomass cogeneration in Thailand, and so on.
Rice chaff power
generation project in Thailand
(A.T. Biopower Co. Ltd.)
  • • Joined project in FY2003 to develop several small-scale (20,000 kW) power plants using rice chaff as fuel in the grain belt of north central Thailand.
  • • First location (Pichit Province) started operations in December 2005.
  • • Currently applying for registration with the UN as a CDM project.
Malaysian project to generate
power from oil palm empty
fruit bunch biomass
  • • In 2006, joined a project to develop biomass power plants (10,000 kW each) using oil palm empty fruit bunches as fuel in two locations in the state of Sabah, on Malaysia's Borneo Island.
  • • CO2 emissions credits from the power plants in these two locations are expected to reach about two million tons by the year 2012.
Purchase of CO2 credits
from CDM projects, etc.
  • • Agreed to purchase about two million tons of CO2 emissions credits from a project that collects and decomposes the greenhouse gas HFC23 (trifluoromethane) emitted from an HCFC plant in Zhejiang Province, China.
  • • Agreed to purchase about 400,000 tons of CO2 emissions credits from a wind energy project in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.
  • • Agreed to purchase approximately 600,000 tons of CO2 emissions credits from a waste methane recovery and power generation project in Jiangsu Province (Nanjing City), China.
  • • Signed a joint purchase agreement with transfer provisions with Japan Carbon Finance, Ltd. for approximately 2 million tons (maximum) of CO2 emissions credits.
  • • Agreed to purchase approximately 580,000 tons of CO2 emissions credits from a waste methane recovery and power generation project in Jiangsu Province (Wuxi City), China.
  • • Agreed to purchase about 500,000 tons of CO2 emissions credits from a wind energy project in Gansu Province, China.
  • • Signed a purchase agreement with EcoSecurities Group P.L.C. for approximately 2 million tons maximum) of CO2 emissions credits.

< Attachment 2 >

[CDM project locater]