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Norway’s fertilizer manufacturer Yara International has launched a 24 MW renewable hydrogen and ammonia plant in Herøya, Norway, the largest of its kind in Europe, according to a statement. The facility uses electrolysis of water and renewable energy as feedstock instead of natural gas, cutting around 41k tonnes of CO2 emissions annually. The first batch of low-carbon footprint fertilizer, produced using green ammonia from the plant, has been delivered to the Swedish agricultural cooperative Lantmännen.
A green hydrogen bonanza: The company signed an agreement with Green Hydrogen and Chemicals Company (GHC) — a subsidiary of Indian renewable energy company Acme Cleantech — to buy 100k tons of green ammonia annually from its Oman plant in March. It also signed a term sheet with AM Green’s green ammonia production division Greenko ZeroC for the supply of green ammonia from India.
Bill Gates’ energy company TerraPower has broken ground on a USD 4 bn nuclear power plant in Wyoming, the tech mogul wrote in a blog post. The plant is pending approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for commercial use after applying in March. Half of the funding will come from the US Department of Energy.
The details: The plant will use 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactors as opposed to traditional water-cooled reactors that can generate up to 500 MW at their peak and provide energy to 400k homes. The launch of the plant was delayed by two years to 2030 because the reactors that will be used rely on high-assay low-enriched uranium that is only commercially supplied by Russia. The US Energy Department is now working on developing the fuel itself.
