The Ammonia Synthesis Plant from Intermittent Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) project is now online outside of Oxford, UK. The demonstrator will produce 300kg per day of renewable ammonia via a containerized, modular system.
MAE’s Volta Project becomes the “first industrial-scale green ammonia project” to complete Chile’s environmental permitting process. The $2.5 billion, 620,000 tons-per-year renewable ammonia project will be constructed in two phases, with commercial production targeted for 2029.
Time-charter contracts covering a total of four vessels have been signed with NYK Bulkship and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to transport ammonia from Louisiana to JERA’s Hekinan Thermal Power Station in Hekinan City, Japan.
Fed directly by fluctuating renewable power inputs, the plant is designed to optimize electrolysis and ammonia production.
The long-term, binding offtake agreement has been signed for renewable ammonia produced at AM Green’s under-development facility in Kakinada, India. 500,000 tons per year of RFNBO-certified ammonia will be shipped to Europe as early as 2028. The agreement has been in the works since 2023.
Via ENOVA, the Norwegian government has awarded $43 million to Azane for the development of three ammonia terminals, and $29 million to Amon Maritime for the construction of three new ammonia-powered bulk carriers.
LBC Tank Terminals and duisport will jointly develop an inland ammonia terminal in Duisburg, connecting the key industrial hub to an under-development ammonia import, storage and cracking terminal in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.
Two Namibia-based renewable ammonia projects – Hyphen Hydrogen Energy and Zhero Molecules Walvis Bay – have received development funding from the African Development Bank and the SDG Namibia One Fund, respectively.
Uniper and thyssenkrupp Uhde have reached an agreement to deploy six ammonia cracking plants around Europe, with a combined cracking capacity of up to 7,200 tons per day of ammonia.
At its pilot plant at the Nagasaki District Research & Innovation Center, MHI has successfully produced 99% pure hydrogen via cracking ammonia powered by steam-based heating. The company and its partners will work towards the development of commercial medium-scale, decentralized ammonia cracking systems.