Babcock Power Services, Riley Power and IHI Corporation have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to perform low-carbon fuel conversion and co-firing retrofits for power plant boilers worldwide.
BPS and RPI, both subsidiaries of Babcock Power Inc. headquartered in Massachusetts, will collaborate with IHI, headquartered in Tokyo, to make use of their combined technological strengths and experience, and by working together, work on accelerating the conversion of existing power plant boilers to lower-carbon fuels, with a particular focus on ammonia.
“This strategic collaboration with IHI represents an important step forward in helping power producers reduce carbon emissions while maximising the value of their existing assets,” said Wade Shephard, president and CEO of BPS and RPI. “By combining BPS and RPI’s experience in retrofitting boilers with IHI’s advanced ammonia combustion technology, we are well positioned to provide customers with practical, scalable solutions for low-carbon power generation.”
BPS and RPI have successfully completed more than 17 GW of fuel conversions across a wide range of boiler designs. In fiscal year 2024, IHI successfully conducted a large-scale ammonia fuel conversion demonstration at JERA’s Hekinan Thermal power station Unit 4 in Japan, achieving a 20% calorific substitution ratio. In addition, at the Labuan coal-fired power station in Indonesia, IHI retrofitted burners supplied by other manufacturers with IHI’s ammonia-firing burners, demonstrating stable and effective ammonia combustion.
