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Tokyo Gas begins synthetic methanation pilot program using green hydrogen

TOKYO Gas, Japan's top city gas supplier, said Friday that it has begun a pilot program of methanation, a technology to help decarbonise city gas, and plans to use green hydrogen sourced from renewable energy for the trial by next March.

Tim Daiss and Helen Clark

Methanation converts hydrogen and CO2 into synthetic methane, an alternative for the main component in natural gas. It's considered one way of using CO2 as a raw material that could help the company achieve...

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