With European farmers applying more than 11Mt of nitrogen fertilisers each year, the agriculture sector is responsible for 13% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. FertigHy aims to integrate green hydrogen into the fertiliser production process by building and operating large-scale low-carbon fertiliser projects.
Construction is planned to start on its first plant, in Spain, in 2025. It will produce more than a million tonnes per year of low-carbon fertiliser and it will be replicated in other European countries.
FertigHy’s objective is to reduce emissions by up to two million tonnes of carbon dioxide per plant annually.
FertigHy’s investors include EIT InnoEnergy, an innovation hub for sustainable energy supported by the EU’s European Institute of Innovation & Technology. It provides business acceleration services through its European Green Hydrogen Acceleration Centre (EGHAC), which was set up to create industrial players and help them accelerate green hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and aviation fuel projects.
Siemens Financial Services – a shareholder in EIT InnoEnergy since 2021 – brings to the consortium its experience in financing large-scale industrial projects.
InViVo is a purchaser and distributor of fertilisers to 300,000 farmers representing over 200 cooperatives.
Brewer Heineken has set a goal to operate in a net-zero value chain by 2040 and will stimulate the demand for low-carbon fertilisers to reduce the carbon footprint of barley and other crops.
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