TOKYO -- At Japan's biggest coal-fired power plant, Hekinan, plans are underway to transform one of its generators to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by 2024. The ultimate goal for the plant's operator, JERA, is to make its thermal plants carbon neutral by burning alternative fuels such as ammonia and hydrogen.
Doing so, the thinking goes, will allow these facilities to keep operating despite increasing environmental pressure to phase out fossil fuels.
