Hitachi Zosen will purchase the surplus electricity (32 million kWh annually) generated by the Nagano Environmental Energy Center (operations to start in March 2019), an energy-from-waste facility currently being constructed by a consortium led by Hitachi Zosen, and supply it to a total of eighty municipal elementary, middle, and high schools in Nagano City (see the diagram below).
In addition to reducing electrical utility costs,^*1 this is expected to have positive environmental effects such as expected reduction of CO₂ emissions.

Hitachi Zosen will work with Nagano City to contribute to promoting Nagano City's global warming measures by providing opportunities to learn about a recycling society where the waste materials you generate turns into the electricity that powers your school. We will also present the roles, etc. of energy-from-waste plants and thermal recycling whereby waste materials can be used as an energy source through sending instructors to give classes in environmental education, field trips, environmental education flyers, and other methods targeting the children at schools this electricity will be supplied to.

Hitachi Zosen rolled out its electricity retail business on July 1, 2015. The main electricity sources are the energy-from-waste plants we have delivered, which are noted for being very environmentally-friendly, only putting out 0.085 kg^*3 of CO₂ emissions per 1 kWh, an extremely low figure. In future, the Hitachi Zosen Group will continue to actively propose local production/local consumption of electricity to help local regions become low carbon societies as we move towards our business goal of becoming a solutions provider that will bring about a recycling society, as well as work to promote renewable energy and contribute to achieving the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).