IHI Corporation announced that the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has chosen the company?s initiative for electric power control and thermal and air management system technology development for the Next-Generation Aircraft Development Project under that organization?s Green Innovation Fund program. For that project, IHI will develop such core aircraft electrification technologies as megawatt-class generators and the world?s most powerful aircraft electric turbo compressor. The company will leverage these core technologies to build a power control system integrating a hybrid electric propulsion system and a thermal and air management system employing an air conditioning system for airframes.

It seeks to establish an airframe system concept that delivers lower fuel consumption than conventional aircraft. This initiative will span around seven years through the fiscal year ending March 2031.