Fusion for Green Ammonia

Ammonia is vital for fertilizer and a promising clean fuel, but its production is fossil-fired today. Firm fusion power could make green ammonia — securing food and a fuel at once.

Ammonia

Fertilizer feedstock + emerging clean fuel

Today

Made from fossil gas (high CO₂)

Green route

Green hydrogen + nitrogen, firm-powered

Benefit

Food security + a shippable clean fuel

Ammonia is one of the most important industrial chemicals — the basis of the fertilizer that feeds much of the world — and an emerging clean fuel (it's carbon-free and easier to ship than hydrogen). But today it's made from fossil natural gas via the Haber-Bosch process, making it a major source of CO₂.

Green ammonia — made from green hydrogen and nitrogen from the air — needs abundant firm clean electricity to be viable, both for the hydrogen and for the synthesis. Firm fusion power is a strong fit: it lets the energy-intensive process run at high utilization rather than idling on intermittent supply, and MetroVolt's DC-native output suits the electrolysis step.

Coupling firm fusion to green ammonia could decarbonize fertilizer — underpinning food security — while producing a clean, shippable fuel, from a single low-carbon source. It's another way firm clean power reaches beyond the electricity grid. See fusion for synthetic fuels.