Green Wolverine: Fertiberia joins green ammonia project in Sweden

Spanish fertiliser company Fertiberia has signed an agreement with the Norrbotten region in Swedish for the development of a facility producing emissions-free green ammonia and fertiliser.

An investment of around €1 billion is required for the project, which would produce as much as 520,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year for use in the fertiliser and industrial markets. Using electrolysis technology, the only raw materials used at the site will be air and water and will be powered by renewable wind and hydropower energy.

Dubbed 'Green Wolverine', this is Fertiberia's first green ammonia project outside Spain. The new facility will be constructed in the Lulea-Boden area and will feature over 600MW of electrolysers and a green ammonia plant producing 1,500 tonnes per day.

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The green ammonia from Green Wolverine will also be used in strategic, harder-to-abate sectors such as mining and shipping to aid decarbonisation efforts.

Sweden is one of the few EU countries that produces no fertiliser domestically and imports around 600,000 tonnes per year, of which 150,000 tonnes is ammonia. The Green Wolverine project is a bid by the nation towards self-sufficiency, and potentially to become one of the first exporters of low-carbon ammonia and fertilisers in the world.

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