Three separate offtake agreements with CF Industries, TalusAg and Fertiberia bring PepsiCo’s total offtake for low-carbon ammonia fertilizers to upwards of 345,000 tons per year, which will account for approximately 50% of PepsiCo’s fertilizer usage by 2030.
Our latest episode of Project Features explores the Chilean development ecosystem for renewable hydrogen and ammonia, and what can be done to stimulate domestic demand. We put one of the most advanced projects – MAE’s Project Volta – in the spotlight, with commercial ammonia production targeted for 2030.
The $665 million project will produce hydroelectric calcium ammonium nitrate fertiliser by October 2029, with Yara already committed to a 10 year, “take-or-pay” agreement covering 100% of output.
The pair will accelerate development of a renewable fertilizer production plant in north Texas. Shomax’s technology utilizes off-grid electrolysers to produce “NitroLEAF” fertilizer, a cost-competitive UAN replacement.
UEG, Abu Qir Fertilizers, Alexfert and Orascom Construction will explore development of a renewable ammonia plant producing 480 tons per day in Alexandria, Egypt.
Topsoe’s ModuLiteTM ammonia production technology will feature in the 100,000 tons per year Jordan Green Ammonia project, being developed by Hynfra.
PlasmaLeap Technologies has secured almost AU$30 million in Series A funding to further develop its plasma-assisted, NOX electrolysis technology process, and to progress deployment of decentralized “fertiliser hubs”. Also in Australia, OzAmmonia has signed an MoU with Jakson Green to explore a pilot project in India, demonstrating OzAmmonia’s NOX-to-ammonia technology.
Four Indian renewable ammonia producers – ACME, Jakson Green, SCC and Oriana Power – have signed binding, 10-year supply contracts to deliver ammonia to domestic fertiliser manufacturers.
Following new agreements signed with the Inter-American Development Bank Group and the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank Group), a total of $420 million of finance has now been secured, with the remainder to be soon complete.
Technology provider Talus, certification provider CleanCounts (formerly M-RETS), and farmer’s co-operative Central Farm Service plan to deploy two modular ammonia synthesis plants in Minnesota, producing up to 20 tons per day of anhydrous ammonia for use as fertilizer by local farmers.