Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA) and Japan’s largest power generator, JERA Co. Inc., have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to study the viability to collaborate on the joint development of a 1 million plus mt/y blue ammonia project that YCA is considering developing in the US Gulf Coast, Yara International ASA announced on Jan. 17.
In the MOU, the two companies have also agreed to jointly study the viability for the sale and purchase of clean ammonia for the 20% co-firing operations at the Hekinan Thermal Power Plant Unit 4, which is targeted to start in 2027.
YCA has been nominated as a potential supplier in JERA’s tender to supply up to 500,000 mt/y of clean ammonia to the Hekinan plant, said Yara. The plant is JERA’s first commercial scale co-firing project.
YCA and JERA inked a MOU in May 2021 to collaborate on the production, delivery, and supply chain development for blue and green ammonia to enable zero-emission thermal power generation in Japan (GM May 14, 2021).