The maritime sector accounts for about 2.8% of all global greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions. Clean ammonia can be used as an emission-free fuel for shipping, enabling us to reach the global emission goals, sources Yara.
Why It Matters
Shipping is a hard-to-abate sector where significant resources are needed for transformation. Regulations, technology development, infrastructure and low-carbon fuels are all key challenges that must be solved for an emission free maritime sector. Yara has already made substantial progress in providing clean ammonia as an emission-free fuel for the maritime sector. The projects awarded grants by Enova today, will enable both the vessel technology and the bunkering solutions.
Propelling Green Transition
Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line (NCL) have received Enova support for the construction of a clean ammonia-fuelled container vessel. In collaboration with Azane Fuel Solutions, Yara Clean Ammonia is developing a pilot bunkering barge which will deliver clean ammonia to vessels. One bunkering barge has received grants from Enova. This is critical bunker infrastructure and will be part of a future bunker network in Scandinavia. Both projects will thus contribute to innovation- and technology development that are crucial to establishing a market for clean ammonia as a zero-emission shipping fuel. “These projects will showcase the potential and the feasibility of clean ammonia as an emission-free fuel to decarbonize the maritime industry. This makes them key to Yara Clean Ammonia, and key to reducing emissions in a hard-to-abate sector,” says Mr. Ankarstrand.
Emission Free Energy System
In a press release from Enova, the Norwegian Minister for Environment and Climate Mr. Espen Barth Eide states: “The world’s energy systems must become emission-free if we are to succeed in reaching the goals we have set ourselves in the Paris Agreement. For shipping, this requires us to adopt new technologies and sustainable zero-emission fuels. The projects that Enova supports make an important contribution to this. Here, the entire breadth is covered from demand, distribution and use of hydrogen and ammonia, development of technology for CO2 capture on board ships, all-electric operation of ships as well as charging facilities for these”.
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Source: Yara
