2023 really is the year of change for the clean ammonia business, with momentum on display across the world. Let’s keep up the pace, keep working together, and help spread the word that clean ammonia will be a winning market.
The East Kimberley Clean Energy project will leverage the region’s solar & freshwater resources and an ‘export-ready’ harbour to create the renewable ammonia production hub. Construction is expected by the end of 2025, and production by the end of 2028. The project will be part owned & operated by traditional landowners.
Three wind farms totalling 530 MW will be developed in partnership with RES & First Nation communities to help power the first phase of EverWind Fuel’s mega-project in Point Tupper. EverWind is also planning the development of a further 2 GW of onshore wind energy, plus a 300 MW solar farm. Ammonia from Point Tupper will be exported to the EU, beginning in 2025.
Hy2gen’s latest ammonia project will feature 200 MW of electrolysers powered by offgrid wind and solar energy, producing 180,000 tonnes of renewable ammonia per year for export to the EU. Local wind developer Mexion Corporation and German development agency GIZ will partner with Hy2gen to proceed with feasibility studies.
Set to reach FID in 2027, the WGEH project will seek to utilise local wind & solar resources and policy incentives in Western Australia to deliver up to 20 million tonnes of renewable ammonia annually. Korea Electric Power Corporation has agreed to jointly develop the project.
At capacity, the Jordan Green Ammonia facility will produce between 100,000 – 200,000 tonnes of renewable ammonia per year, powered by 530 MW of solar energy. The ammonia produced will be used both locally and for export to the European market.
H2Global has quadrupled its funding for low-carbon hydrogen and derivatives, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. The funding will support H2Global’s contract-for-difference instrument which covers the increased costs of producing “green” hydrogen and provides secure long-term contracts for suppliers.
The pre-FEED phase for Hyrasia One will conclude at the end of this year. The project expects to build a 2 million tonne per year renewable hydrogen (or 11 million tonnes per year ammonia) facility by 2032 both for local use and for the export market.
Yara and Bunker Holding will look to accelerate the supply of ammonia bunker fuel to first movers in the shipping industry, focusing on key trading routes and port locations. In Norway, Equinor and Azane Fuel Solutions will undertake a new project, aiming to demonstrate how Norway’s offshore sector can be decarbonised by 2030 via the use of clean ammonia fuel.
Hydrom (Hydrogen Oman) has signed commercial term sheets and allocated land to a series of important ammonia export projects being developed in the Gulf nation. Green Energy Oman is one of three project consortia granted land near Duqm in the country’s south, with further allocations expected in the coming months. Also in Duqm, ENGIE & POSCO have launched a million-tonne-per-year ammonia production project, with the full production output to be exported to Korea over the forty year operational lifetime of the plant.