H2Carrier, a Norwegian company that has developed a vessel to make and export green ammonia, is linking up with Greenland clean energy firm Anori to develop a wind farm to produce the fuel.
The first commercial wind farm in Greenland is projected to comprise 1.5 GW of renewable energy to supply power to H2Carrier’s P2XFloater vessel.
Green ammonia will be produced using the Haber-Bosch system and stored in tanks on board the vessel for export to smaller ships.
The P2XFloaters have a scalable production capacity ranging from 100,000 to 230,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year, H2Carrier said.
As far as the company is aware, the P2XFloater is the first vessel of its kind to be launched on a global basis capable of producing hydrogen and ammonia on an industrial scale.
H2Carrier aims to build, own or lease and operate a fleet of P2XFloaters on green fuel projects around the world. It also has plans for schemes offshore of north Norway and Scotland.
Chief executive Marten Lunde, who has held a senior position in Fred Olsen companies, said the company is building on established technologies from the oil and gas industry to develop zero-carbon ammonia.
“Greenland is uniquely positioned to take a leading role internationally for the supply of green ammonia,” he added.
Anori chairman Nicolai Fossar Fabritius, who was previously a director of Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, said less than 1% of global ammonia consumption is produced from renewable energy.
“We need to turn this around to come closer to 100% as soon as possible in order to reach the targets of the Paris agreement,” he said.
