Wednesday 27 October 2021

British and Paraguayan companies team up to produce green hydrogen and ammonia

UK company ATOME Energy has partnered with Itaipu Binational Technology Park to produce green hydrogen and ammonia in Paraguay.

They intend to produce 250MW of green hydrogen and ammonia from clean energy sources and will begin with an initial 50MW unit by the end of 2024.

It has stated its Paraguay project will have easy access to clean energy form Itaipu’s hydroelectric dams.

ATOME Energy is also looking to simultaneously run the same project in Iceland.

Ambassador, Ramin Navai, said: “We are very excited about this news. The future production of green hydrogen and ammonia would be a great bilateral achievement, with the UK providing its expertise and Paraguay providing its clean energy from Itaipu.

“We are going to produce green energy with green energy! That’s the way forward to a commercially competitive future, in an environmentally friendly way.”