Toho Gas, Toyota Tsusho secure Japanese subsidy for Brazil biogas demonstration project
- Toho Gas and Toyota Tsusho's Brazilian sugarcane-residue biogas project was selected for government subsidy support under the FY2025 supplementary budget.
- The demonstration is scheduled to start in July 2028, running through around January 2030.
- A plant at a Brazilian partner's sugar mill will produce 5,000 cubic meters of biogas daily to test large-scale production.
- The partners plan a Brazilian special-purpose company with Mizuho Bank and Cotica Energia e Participações.
- Commercialization efforts will target Brazilian transport fuel demand, with potential exports to Japan in the future.
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