Green Ammonia Made With Wind Is Future of Fertilizer at Siemens
- Siemens combines electrolysis with wind to manufacture gas
- Technology absorbs excess wind power from Germany to China
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Siemens AG will trial a technology that turns wind power into ammonia gas, a product that could clean up pollution from the fertilizer industry.
The world’s biggest power-equipment maker is building a plant near Oxford, England, that makes ammonia by electrolysis instead of through the traditional reaction fed by fossil fuels, said Armin Schnettler, the company’s head of energy and electrical research. If fed by idled renewable power plants, the process would make emissions-free fertilizer used by farmers everywhere.