New York-based First Ammonia and German energy company Uniper, Dusseldorf, on Oct. 31 announced that they are cooperating in First Ammonia’s proposed green ammonia project in the Port of Victoria, Texas (GM Dec. 23, 2022). The ammonia will be delivered to Uniper.
“We are excited to partner with Uniper to deliver green ammonia to the global market from our 100% carbon-free, innovative flagship project in Texas,” said First Ammonia CEO Joel Moser. “This groundbreaking project brings together Texan renewable electricity with the flexibility of cutting-edge electrolyzers from our technology partner Topsoe in Denmark (GM Sept. 16, 2022), the local knowledge and support of the Victoria Economic Development Corp., and now the global perspective of Uniper as a front runner in the transition towards greener gases. We look forward to a long and successful partnership with Uniper.”
First Ammonia said this is the world’s first modular commercial-scale green ammonia plant. It expects production to begin in 2026. The company said that each 100 MW module will initially produce up to 100,000 mt/y of green ammonia and be zero carbon compared to 180,000-240,000 mt/y of CO2 from a grey ammonia plant.
Based on its contract with Topsoe, First Ammonia said it could eventually produce up to 5 million mt/y of green ammonia.