As a Member of the Regional Community

Participation in the Environmental Action Committee of YMM

MM21 DHC participates in the Environmental Action Committee of Yokohama Minato Mirai 21 (YMM), the area management corporation of the Minato Mirai 21 district. Through this committee, MM21 DHC takes part in measures against global warming and a wide range of other environmental initiatives.
The Company also takes part in Earth Hour, an environmental campaign sponsored by World Wildlife Fund Japan (WWFJ) in which the City of Yokohama and YMM participate. Every year MM21 DHC joins this event, symbolically turning off the lights for one hour.

Participation in the YSBA

The Yokohama Smart Business Association (YSBA) was founded in 2015 as a citizen liaison organization committed to making Yokohama an energy-recycling city characterized by superior disaster preparedness, environmental protection and economic performance.
MM21 DHC endorses the objectives of the YSBA and serves it as a member of its Board of Governors.
Key actions by MM21 DHC as a participant in YSBA are as follows.

  • ·MM21 DHC is an environmentally friendly company tasked with supplying heating and cooling to the Minato Mirai 21, a district in which the City of Yokohama takes great pride as an international city. As part of that responsibility, the Company implements optimal operation management systems and high-efficiency heat sources.
  • ·MM21 DHC applies the data it gathers through central monitoring and its expertise in operation-planning support systems to build optimal operation management systems.
  • ·The Company also investigates the feasibility of advanced technologies expected to be commercialized in the near future. Through these investigations, the Company enhances the quality of operational controls while reducing their personnel requirements, and pursues further energy savings and reductions in CO2 emissions. In this way MM21 DHC contributes to the environmental performance of the Minato Mirai 21 district.

Participation in creation of an “advanced decarbonized district”

In April 2022, the Minato Mirai 21 district was selected to become an “advanced decarbonized district.”
The City of Yokohama and YMM are leading an effort to construct a decarbonization model for large cities, in partnership with 32 facilities in the Minato Mirai 21 district and the public sector. Participating as one of those facilities, MM21 DHC is working on the following items.

  • （1）Installation of solar generating equipment on rooftops in the area, in public facilities outside the area and on unused land (city-managed housing, regulating reservoirs, etc.) and supply of the renewable energy so generated to decarbonize electricity production
  • （2）Thorough reduction of energy consumption and district-wide energy management to create capability in adjusting electricity supply and demand
  • （3）Achieving carbon reduction and decarbonization in the area’s DHC, one of the largest in Japan
  • （4）Recycling of food waste in restaurants, etc., recycling of PET bottles and other initiatives to advance resource circulation
  • （5）Presentation of events, etc. to encourage individual residents, businesses, etc. to reorient their habits toward decarbonization

MM21 DHC is engaged in above activities (1) and (3) as a thermal-energy supplier and in (1) through (5) as a general business operator in the Minato Mirai 21 district.

You can read about the City of Yokohama’s efforts as an “advanced decarbonizing region” here. Yokohama.lg.jp

Other

As a member of the Minato Mirai 21 district, MM21 DHC takes part in the following local events and other activities.

  • · YMM’s Towers Milight: Annual participation
  • · Pink Ribbon Kanagawa’s Pink Ribbon Lightup: Annual participation
  • · Ministry of the Environment (MOE)’s “Environment Day is Green” lightup
  • · Sakura tug-of-war championship at Minato Mirai 21 Sakura Festa
  • · Yokohama Nishi Ward Office’s “Nishi Ward SDGs Action”
  • · YMM’s Minato Mirai e-Sports Exchange Meeting