Poland's Hynfra, Tsubame team up for ammonia energy storage

Polish renewable hydrogen system designer Hynfra PSA said it will cooperate with Japanese ammonia technology supplier Tsubame BHB in creating ammonia energy storage facilities for the renewable industry and hydrogen logistics.

Hynfra has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tsubame to use its innovative catalyst technology for small-scale ammonia production in small distributed renewable hydrogen facilities in the municipal and district heating sector, the company said on Friday.

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Hynfra has designed a plant for the production of renewable hydrogen, which can be used in the synthesis with nitrogen to produce zero-emission green ammonia.

The ability to produce ammonia on a small scale will allow for much more flexible storage not only of hydrogen itself, but also of the renewable energy contained in it, without the need for capital-intensive large production plants, said Hynfra's founder and CEO, Tomoho Umeda.

The use of renewable hydrogen for the production of ammonia combines climate goals with strong support for distributed renewable energy, that is locating generation units closer to the end user, Tsubame said earlier.

Hynfra's subsidiary, Hynfra Energy Storage, is a developer of energy storage systems on an industrial scale. In December, the company together with its partners Heyka Capital Markets and developer PKE Pomorze won a 17 year contract with its 7.5 MW storage facility at the auction of Polish power grid operator Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne.