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August 9, 2023
By Julian Atchison
FertigHy: new
low-carbon fertiliser consortium launched in EuropeAtlas Agro:
Washington State
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Founding investors EIT InnoEnergy,
RIC Energy, Maire Tecnimont, Siemens Financial Services, InVivo and
Heineken have launched FertigHy: a new consortium aiming to build and
operate large-scale fertiliser projects to supply the EU agricultural
sector. The first project will be developed in Spain, producing more
than one million metric tonnes per year of low-carbon, nitrogen-based
fertilisers from renewable electricity and electrolytic hydrogen.
Construction of the facility (exact location TBC) will begin in 2025.
There has never been greater urgency to decarbonise and collectively
regain our production of fertiliser. With a plethora of factors at
play in Europe in 2023 the time to establish a greener and
self-sufficient industry for all is now. FertigHy will rebuild
resilience against disrupted supply chains, while promoting
sovereignty for the agriculture industry and security of supply by
accelerating the decarbonisation of the food value chain.
José Antonio de las Heras, CEO of FertigHy, in his organisation’s
official press release, 28 June 2023
EIT InnoEnergy is an EU-backed body that founded the European Green
Hydrogen Acceleration Center (EGHAC) in 2020. Aiming to accelerate the
establishment of new, green industrial companies within the EU, EIT
InnoEnergy is also one of the founding partners in GravitHy, the
European renewable steel project. Part of Plug Power’s planned
electrolysis capacity in Finland will feed steel production by
GravitHy (as well as ammonia production). Maire Tecnimont will be the
ammonia technology provider and EPC contractor for the new project in
Spain.
The other partners in FertigHy bring important project development
capabilities. Siemens Financial Services will assist with financing
the project, and InViVo will act as a purchaser and distributor of
fertilisers (their network extends to some 300,000 farmers that are
part of over 200 EU agricultural cooperatives). Heineken – Europe’s
largest brewer – is aiming to operate a net-zero value chain by 2040.
FertigHy’s ambitions are fully in line with the EU’s Fit-for-55
Package or the recent REPowerEU and Green Deal Industrial Plan and
demonstrates our ability to enable Europe’s net-zero industry
competitiveness. This investment is also a further signal of EIT
InnoEnergy’s commitment to hard-to-abate industries and a marker of
our continued success with EGHAC.
Jacob Ruiter, Managing Director of EGHAC in FertigHy’s official press
release, 28 June 2023
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