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July 8, 2024
The global green ammonia market is projected to reach $701 million by 2024, with an anticipated growth rate of more than 72% from 2024 to 2032. DNV GL predicts that ammonia fuel will be widely adopted starting in 2037 and will constitute 25% of the maritime fuel mix by 2050. This trajectory is good news in the journey towards decarbonization.
First Ammonia and Germany’s Uniper will produce green ammonia from renewable power at First Ammonia’s Texas-based facility in 2026.
Read more in Forbes here.
May 19, 2024
Ammonia production is a carbon-intensive process that uses fossil fuels to make the pungent-smelling chemical, which is often used to make fertilizers. But some companies think it could also as a carbon-free fuel for cargo ships or to generate electricity.
The Inflation Reduction Act, with its $370 billion in climate funding, has put the U.S. on the front lines of cleaning up the ammonia industry. A New York-based startup called First Ammonia initially planned on building its first green ammonia plant in Europe. But it changed course after Russia invaded Ukraine and Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, in 2022.
Read more in Scientific American here.
April 30, 2024
North American clean ammonia producers are eyeing exports to Europe, with project developers taking advantage of US Inflation Reduction Act subsidies and other support to position themselves competitively in the global supply space.
But the European market should not see the IRA funding as a threat, he said.
“Far from being a challenge, the IRA supports what’s intended to happen here,” with imports helping to grow the clean hydrogen economy, Moser said.
Read more in S&P Global here.
April 15, 2024
2023 was an exciting year for Uniper. In August we announced our new strategy:“Accelerating the energy transition: flexible, balanced, bespoke.” Europe wants to reduce its greenhouse- gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Germany aims to be climate-neutral by 2045. Uniper wants to achieve this already by 2040. This is a truly mammoth task. But we consider Uniper to be very well positioned for these changes. We are playing a decisive role in transforming the energy system, which you can read about in this report.
First Ammonia partnership featured on page 12 and page 21.
Read more of the Uniper report here.
April 15, 2024
In 2023, Uniper entered into further partnerships to expand its worldwide zero- or low-carbon gas sourcing activities. In October 2023, Uniper and First Ammonia, a developer of commercial-scale green ammonia production plants, announced a cooperation on a green (zero-carbon) ammonia project in Texas, which will supply Uniper’s industrial and global customers, and reduce greenhouse gases by replacing grey ammonia which is produced from natural gas. Green Ammonia production will begin in 2026 (page 119).
Read more of the Uniper report here.
March 8, 2024
First Ammonia is intentionally building its project portfolio backwards, CEO Joel Moser tells Rachel Parkes.
When start-up First Ammonia burst onto the green hydrogen scene in September 2022, seemingly out of nowhere, it was via the announcement that it had made the world’s largest electrolyser order, as part of a deal to secure an unprecedented 5GW of solid-oxide electrolysers.
Read more in Hydrogen Insight here.
December 15, 2023
Produced through environmentally friendly methods, clean ammonia is an essential global commodity and strongly emerging as a key part of a future global hydrogen trade flow, with demand growing year-on-year.
First Ammonia will produce ammonia at their flagship facility in Port of Victoria, Texas, with international energy company, Uniper, as partner.
Read more of the Reuters Events report here.
October 31, 2023
Announced yesterday at the US – German Hydrogen Conference in Berlin, Uniper and First Ammonia are working together to deliver green ammonia to Uniper as part of a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for ammonia consumers. Each 100MW module will initially produce up to 100,000MTPA of green ammonia. This is the equivalent to 180,000-240,000MT of CO₂ avoided per annum when compared to grey ammonia. This zero-carbon ammonia will help Uniper accelerate the energy transition for its customers, Germany, and the wider European market. The plant deploys a unique Power to Ammonia concept based on the integration of the high temperature solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) with the exothermic ammonia synthesis process.
Read more of the press release here.
July 13, 2023
Green ammonia is crucial for a green future. It’s a reliable source of power but producing it calls for electrolysis on a huge scale. Our revolutionary electrolyzers can provide that – and they’ll be at the core of First Ammonia’s green ammonia plants.
We’re working with US-based business First Ammonia to put SOEC at the heart of green ammonia plants set to open by 2025.
Read more from Topsoe here.
May 1, 2023
First Ammonia CEO, Joel H. Moser was one of the speakers at the ground-breaking ceremony for Topsoe’s SOEC manufacturing facility.
Listen in here.
March 14, 2023
More than ever, investing in renewables and renewable hydrogen is a strategic choice for a stronger Europe. Yet the cost of renewable hydrogen remains a challenge to its uptake. How will the European Hydrogen Bank help make renewable hydrogen bankable? What role should the bank take in Europe’s response to the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act? How should it help Europe stay leader in one of the key clean technologies of the 21st century?
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December 16, 2022
The Victoria County Navigation District is in discussions with First Ammonia for a potential green technology project at the Port. First Ammonia is considering a lease with a 50-year option on 115 acres at the Port’s newly founded Texas Logistics Center. They would be the center’s first customer to capitalize on the Port’s recent infrastructure investments. If the contract comes to fruition, First Ammonia would be investing an initial 275 million dollars in infrastructure, with the possibility of a complete buildout totaling one billion dollars.
Read more here.
December 9, 2022
The United States Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contains a $369 billion Energy Security and Climate Change package of subsidies and tax credits to incentivize consumers and producers to buy, invest and build green technologies in the US, consequently impacting the EU as a key place to invest. There are still companies planning to invest in green technologies within the EU, such as First Ammonia, who is developing the first modular, commercial-scale plants to produce green ammonia using breakthrough solid oxide electrolyser cells (SOEC), which are 30% more efficient than conventional electrolysers. First Ammonia recently signed the world’s largest electrolyser launch company agreement with Topsoe worth 5 GW, and alongside its activities in the US is planning to build its two large-scale (several hundred MWs) renewable ammonia plants in Germany.
As the US IRA enters into force soon, Mr Joel Moser (CEO of First Ammonia) and Mr Hunter Johnston (Partner at Steptoe) will discuss some of the key elements and the implications of the IRA on the EU economy, and assess potential actions the EU can take to stay a key location for green hydrogen-based investments.
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November 21, 2022
The intermittency of wind and solar is an obstacle for many. See how First Ammonia CEO, Joel Moser, is taking on that challenge and more in a full interview with BNamericas.
November 21, 2022
Interview with BNamericas.
Read more here.
October 25, 2022
Joel H. Moser, Chief Executive Officer at First Ammonia, discusses First Ammonia’s take on circular economies, on gasworld’s, Sustainability and Circular Economies, webinar. Never before has sustainability and decarbonisation been such a hotbed of activity, and an imperative area of focus, for the gases industry. But what does it mean for the industry, and where are the growth opportunities? How can the industry – from gas producers and suppliers through to equipment innovators – realise these opportunities both in the here and now and tomorrow, as part of its long-term future? We dive deeper into the circular economies driving the industry forward and better understand not just the natural growth hotspots for the gases industry, but how these can also interconnect with current hot topic supply chains such as the CO2 business and the technologies this industry already pioneers (think gasification, oxygen and nitrogen production).
Listen in here.
September 14, 2022
Topsoe and First Ammonia signed a 5GW launch company agreement for the reservation of first-of-a-kind, industrial-scale, solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) to produce green ammonia, a fuel for transportation, power storage and generation, and fertilizer.
This is shaping up to be the largest agreement in the world, to date, for any type of electrolyzer and will displace almost 5 BCM of natural gas and eliminate 13 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
The first 500 MW of capacity will be installed in the world’s first commercial-scale green ammonia plants at sites in Northern Germany and Southwestern United States.
Read more here.
March 18, 2021
Aquamarine is developing a large-scale green ammonia facility to be constructed in multiple stages. In the first stage of the project, the proposed facility will use Topsoe’s proprietary solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) to produce green hydrogen from 100 megawatt of renewable electricity. The hydrogen will be further processed into 300 ton/day of green ammonia, also using Topsoe technology. The produced ammonia can be used as a green marine fuel or as fertilizer.
Read more here.