Airbus and Kawasaki Heavy Industries this week signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly study issues related to hydrogen supply, infrastructure, and fuel delivery to support the future deployment of hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft.
The agreement, signed at a ceremony in Tokyo on April 13 attended by Stéphane Ginoux, head of the North Asia region for Airbus and president of Airbus Japan, and Motohiko Nishimura, executive officer, and deputy general manager of Kawasaki’s Hydrogen Strategy division calls for the companies to prepare a roadmap to address challenges and define an advocacy plan on aviation’s hydrogen needs. Both parties will also embark on projects to pioneer the deployment of a hydrogen infrastructure for aviation with a particular focus on the development of hydrogen hubs at airports.
“This partnership will obviously accelerate and promote efforts by the Japanese government to achieve a carbon-neutral, decarbonized society from overall aircraft operations in 2050,” said Ginoux. “We strongly believe that the use of hydrogen—both in synthetic fuels and as a primary power source for commercial aircraft—has the potential to significantly reduce aviation's climate impact.”
Under the MoU, Airbus will provide aircraft characteristics, fleet energy usage, and insight on hydrogen-powered aircraft for ground operations. Kawasaki will perform a cost outlook, work on so-called technology drivers on the various elements of the supply chain, and build infrastructure deployment scenarios for the supply of targeted airports.
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