Envision: Chinese renewable ammonia exports to hit the market this year
By on July 17, 2025
Click to learn more. The now-commissioned Chifeng Industrial Park is currently at 320,000 tons per year renewable ammonia production capacity, with the first exports slated for Q4 this year. Source: Envision.
Chinese company Envision has commissioned its 320,000 tons per year renewable hydrogen and ammonia production facility near Chifeng City, with first exports expected to hit the markets in the fourth quarter of this year.
The project, powered by an off-grid renewable energy system featuring advanced wind turbines, grid-forming battery storage, and predictive meteorological modelling, is located in the Chifeng Net Zero Industrial Park in East Inner Mongolia. It is fully AI-enabled, allowing it to achieve real-time optimization and stability at scale.
As a key feature of the project, surplus renewable power feeds into a “dynamic” air-separation unit which produces liquid nitrogen. Electrolysers then “intelligently respond to renewable power swings, dynamically optimizing energy absorption and ammonia production.” This set up allows the balancing between wind and solar input and electrolyzer and ammonia synthesis demands, which in turn ensures continuous, cost-effective off-grid renewable ammonia production. The project is also designed on a modular model, making it adaptable and deployable globally.
Click to learn more. Tank storage and electrolysers at the now-commissioned Chifeng Industrial Park. Source: Envision.
The project, which has been awarded the Bureau Veritas Renewable Ammonia Certification, has a long-term offtake agreement with Japan-based trading house Marubeni Corporation, targeting supply to the fertiliser, chemicals and shipping sectors. In further news this week, Chifeng has also become the first project worldwide to receive the designation for green ammonia under ISCC PLUS guidelines.
Via a phased scale up programme, the industrial park plans to increase annual production capacity to about 5 million tons per year by 2028. By the same year, Envision also aims to reach price parity with fossil-sourced ammonia.
This is more than a technological milestone. Scalable, green alternatives are now real and operational. We can’t get to net zero without green hydrogen, and we can’t afford to wait. This is the blueprint for a clean energy future.
Lei Zhang, Envision Founder and CEO, in her organisation’s official press release, 10 July 2025