Komaki City
J&T Recycling Corporation
Urban Energy Corporation
Bios Komaki Co., Ltd.

Komaki City has entered into a partnership agreement with J&T Recycling Corporation (Headquarters: Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, President: Hiroyuki Haseba), Urban Energy Corporation (Headquarters: Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, President: Atsushi Kobayashi), and Bios Komaki Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shimosue, Komaki, President: Tomomi Hirobe), a subsidiary of J&T Recycling. As part of their efforts toward achieving carbon neutrality, starting in April, all electricity used at the Komaki City Clean Center (sewage treatment facility in Higashitanaka, Komaki) will be switched to effectively 100% renewable energy. This is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 159 tons annually.
This scheme utilizes Urban Energy's "Zero Emission Plan®" and "Power Generation Discount®." Food waste generated within Komaki City will be collected and managed by the city, with J&T Recycling coordinating waste management and Bios Komaki conducting methane fermentation and recycling power generation. Urban Energy will purchase the generated electricity and allocate it to the Komaki City Clean Center. The electricity supplied by Urban Energy will be effectively 100% renewable through the use of non-fossil fuel certificates.
Furthermore, Bios Komaki will create a recycling-based society through an agricultural loop by utilizing fermentation residue from the methane fermentation process as fertilizer.
Komaki City was selected as the first "SDGs Future City" in the Owari region in FY2021 and declared itself a "Zero Carbon City" in June of the same year, aiming to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The city will continue to promote food recycling and expand renewable energy use in municipal facilities to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
The JFE Engineering Group will continue to promote food recycling and local production and consumption of renewable energy, contributing to the realization of a sustainable society.

■Agreement Signing Ceremony