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locations around the globe. The system is
designed and manufactured to be scalable
so customers can increase the number of
Factory LNG units used as the market grows,
delivering LNG at pace with demand.
MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS, August 26, 2021

EUROPE
On the designated supply

contract of liquefied natural
gas with Equinor

AB “Ignitis grupe” (hereinafter – Ignitis Group
or the company) informs that on 27 August
project related to hydrogen utilisation at an thermal power that does not emit CO2 during 2021 the management board of the company’s
LNG thermal power plant in Japan under power generation. JERA will continue to subsidiary UAB “Ignitis” (hereinafter – Ignitis)
the New Energy and Industrial Technology contribute to energy industry decarbonization approved the amendment and signing of the
Development Organization’s Green through its own proactive efforts to develop purchase contract with Equinor regarding
Innovation Fund programme. decarbonisation technologies while ensuring liquefied natural gas intended for designated
Because hydrogen does not emit CO2 economic rationality. supply operations. The company will not
when burned, it is seen as a prospective JERA, August 26, 2021 inform about the signing of the contract
next-generation fuel for use in thermal power separately.
stations instead of fossil fuels. In order to ensure diversification of natural
JERA aims to reduce its use of fossil fuels AUSTRAL ASIA gas supply to Lithuania and operations of the
and to develop “zero-emission thermal liquefied natural gas terminal in Klaipeda,
power” that emits no CO2 during generation Factory LNG: MAN Energy on February 2014 Ignitis, by a process of
by using hydrogen and ammonia as fuel. procurement, was appointed to conduct
Intermediate to achieving such zero-emission Solutions and Woodside designated supply operations for the period
thermal power plants, JERA plans to reduce of 2015-24 and to provide mandatory supply
CO2 emissions by gradually increasing the Energy announce alliance volume, the size of which is determined by the
utilisation rates for hydrogen and ammonia. Government of the Republic of Lithuania, for
As JERA looks to achieve the practical use on innovative LNG the liquefied natural gas (hereinafter – LNG)
of hydrogen at existing LNG thermal power terminal in Klaipeda. For this operation,
plants, the Project will switch a portion of the technology in 2014 contract was concluded in 2014,
LNG fuel used to generate electricity at JERA’s amended in 2016 and remains effective until
large-scale LNG thermal power plant in MAN Energy Solutions and Woodside Energy 2024. According to an effective legislation,
Japan to hydrogen and evaluate the resulting – a pioneer of the Australian LNG industry – the difference between the price paid for
operational and environmental characteristics have signed a co-operation agreement aimed purchasing LNG cargoes under the contract
over a period of approximately five years from at commercialising an innovative solution for and an average price of imported gas to the
October 2021 to March 2025. small-to-mid scale LNG production. Known Republic of Lithuania shall be covered and
Based on the results of a feasibility study as Factory LNG, the technology combines compensated to Ignitis using LNG terminal
to be conducted early in the Project period, Woodside’s intellectual property and LNG security component, which is paid by the final
JERA aims to construct hydrogen supply experience with MAN’s global manufacturing consumers of natural gas in Lithuania.
facilities and other related facilities at its LNG and project-execution expertise. The company reminds that in 2019 the
thermal power plant, to install combustors The concept involves a nominal 0.05 government had to approve a mandatory
capable of co-firing hydrogen and LNG in its mtpa unit, the size of 40-foot ISO shipping supply volume for the LNG terminal for the
gas turbines, and to switch approximately 30% container, that can be transported via standard period of five years (until the end of 2024),
of the LNG used for electricity generation (by heavy-lift shipping and trucking logistics. It which amounts to 4–6 conventional LNG
volume, equivalent to approximately 10% of also includes MAN’s HOFIM® high-speed, oil- cargoes per year. However, a volume of four
heating value) to hydrogen by fiscal 2025. free, integrated motor-compressor technology conventional LNG cargoes per year was
This is Japan’s first initiative to use a large as used, for example, in subsea compression- approved for one-year period only both in
amount of hydrogen as fuel in a large-scale station applications. 2020 and in 2021, while, from that point
commercial LNG thermal power plant. Factory LNG offers 10 years’ low-to-no forward, both the Ministry of Energy of the
Under its “JERA Zero CO2 Emissions touch maintenance and provides flexible Republic of Lithuania and Ignitis have been
2050” objective, JERA has been working to layout options making it easily adaptable to looking for ways to reduce the designated
eliminate CO2 emissions from its domestic site constraints. The partners believe the newly supply costs.
and overseas businesses by 2050, promoting developed infrastructure has the potential to IGNITIS GRUPE, August 27, 2021
the adoption of greener fuels and pursuing unlock liquefaction capabilities at multiple

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