Envision began construction of its 40 billion Rmb green ammonia plant
(Chifeng, Inner Mongolia) On Oct 22th, Envision Energy broke ground for phase 1 of its 1.52 million ton zero-emission ammonia plant in Ongniud Banner, Inner Mongolia.
Photo: the break ground ceremony of Envision’s green ammonia plant in Chifeng
The plant, which Envision said will cost 40 billion Rmb ($5.5 billion) totally, has 3 phases:
·     Phase 1, from 2022 to 2024, build 56,000 ton green hydrogen capacity which will be served as feedstock to generate 320,000 ton green ammonia;
·     Phase 2: from 2024 to 2026, build another 300,000 green ammonia and 10,000 liquor hydrogen capacity;
·     Phase 3: from 2026 to 2029, establish 900,000 green ammonia capacity.
Finally, this giant plant will have 1.52 million ton green ammonia capacity, all the power will be sourced from newly built wind and solar plant locally. According to our database, the 320,000 ton phase 1 capacity is the largest green ammonia project under construction in China so far.
Envision Group is a world-leading company providing renewable energy system solutions and net zero technology partner. With the mission of ‘solving the challenges for a sustainable future'. It designs, sells, and operates smart wind turbines, smart storage system and green hydrogen solutions through Envision Energy, and AIoT-powered batteries through Envision AESC.
In 2022, Envision Energy won 19.5GW wind turbin system procuments, rank 1st in China, followed by Mingyang and Gold Wind. Among these 19.5GW contract, 6.7GW is from oversea, accounting for 82% of the total amount that China’s manufacturers got. It is arguably a renewable energy equipment giant with global footprint which has innovation center in Denmark, Germany, US, and Singapore.
The company shows great interests to hydrogen energy in recently years and it seems to include green hydrogen production as a core business. Envision Energy has made remarkable progress in hydrogen energy business in 2023.
On June 6th, it announced that it has signed a contract to supply 1.67 GW wind turbines for NEOM Green Hydrogen Company, the world's largest utility-scale hydrogen plant powered entirely by renewable energy. The mega plant is located at Oxagon, Saudi Arabia's region of NEOM.
On August 15th, it announced it signed a MoU with Canadian Funds Management giant Brookfield to supply wind power and green hydrogen solutions to Australian upcoming green hydrogen program.
On August 3rd, Envision Energy announced that its solar-wind power-green hydrogen-green ammonia-green methanol project got approval from regulatory authority of Inner Mongolia. This project has three phases: phase 1 will build 100,000 Nm³/h green hydrogen and 300,000 ton green ammonia capacity; phase 2 will have the same products and scale with phase 1; phase 3 will build 100,000 Nm³/h green hydrogen and 300,000 ton green methanol capacity. The total investment of this project would be 9.8bn Rmb ($1.36bn) and it is expected to be fully operational by 2028.
To fortify the competitiveness in green hydrogen business, Envision Energy plans to supply electrolyser by itself. It announced on August 25th that it will build a 2GW electrolyser manufacturing plant in Inner Mongolia-1GW for ALK electrolyser and 1GW for PEM electrolyser.