A pioneering plant in Denmark has begun operation, demonstrating the potential for flexible green ammonia production that could revolutionise renewable energy utilisation in heavy industry and shipping, with significant emissions savings and cost reductions.
What is being billed as the world’s first dynamic green ammonia plant has begun operation in Ramme, near Lemvig in Northwest Jutland, Denmark, in a collaboration between Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy and Vestas. According to the announcement by Topsoe and partner communications, the demonstration facility directly couples local wind and solar generation to an electrolyser and ammonia synthesis loop that can vary its output to match intermittent renewable power.
The plant is designed to address a central constraint on green ammonia scale-up: conventional Haber–Bosch plants run best at steady baseload, while renewable power is variable. By enabling the electrolyser and synthesis loop to operate dynamically with changing electricity input, the project aims to reduce the need for large, costly buffers of stored hydrogen or electricity and to improve overall production efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Industry commentary on the approach stresses that dynamic operation could materially lower the system costs of producing green ammonia and make the molecule more competitive as a low‑carbon fuel and hydrogen carrier for long‑distance shipping, fertiliser supply chains and decarbonising heavy industry.
The facility will produce about 5,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year, the partners said. Topsoe’s press material states the plant will avoid roughly 9,600 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually; earlier partner statements around the project have cited slightly different figures, with one release noting an annual avoided emissions estimate of about 8,200 tonnes. According to Topsoe, the plant’s renewable inputs comprise some 50 MW of newly installed solar panels together with existing Vestas V80 turbines (12 MW total). The project received DKK 81 million (approximately EUR 11 million) from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP), according to the project partners.
Kim Hedegaard, CEO Power‑to‑X at Topsoe, said: “This is a significant achievement. By working across the value chain, we’re accelerating green ammonia as a pathway to diversify our energy supply and decarbonize energy‑intensive industries and long‑distance transportation like shipping and agriculture.” Niels Erik Madsen, CEO at Skovgaard Energy, said: “We are extremely proud of this groundbreaking project in Northwest Jutland driving innovation, growth and job creation locally. It demonstrates the energy systems of tomorrow – scalable worldwide to accelerate the green transition.”
Topsoe is supplying the ammonia technology while Vestas contributes wind‑power expertise; Skovgaard Energy is providing the project development and on‑site renewables. The partners present the plant as a demonstration intended to validate dynamic integration at field scale and to inform further commercial roll‑out. According to company statements, the exercise is also meant to show how green ammonia can leverage existing transport and storage infrastructure and serve multiple end uses beyond fertiliser, including as an e‑fuel or hydrogen vector for industry and shipping.
The project’s demonstration status and partner briefings underline both potential and uncertainty. Demonstration funding and published project facts point to a modest commercial scale compared with global ammonia production but are consistent with the common industry approach of using pilot plants to de‑risk flexible operation methods before committing to larger, grid‑scale deployments. Government support via EUDP and private partner backing reflect policy and market interest in electrified chemical pathways; industry data shows such projects are increasingly used to test the integration of variable renewables with industrial electrolysers.
Observers will watch closely for operational data from Ramme on capacity factors, ramping behaviour, synthesis efficiency at partial load and the balance‑of‑plant costs associated with dynamic control. Those metrics will determine whether dynamically coupled plants reduce total system cost compared with designs that rely on substantial hydrogen or power storage. If the demonstration substantiates the partners’ claims, it could inform the design of larger, commercial green ammonia facilities that aim to produce at lower cost while operating with higher shares of variable renewables.
- https://envirotecmagazine.com/2026/01/05/worlds-first-dynamic-green-ammonia-plant-begins-operation-in-denmark/ – Please view link – unable to able to access data
- https://www.topsoe.com/press-releases/worlds-first-dynamic-green-ammonia-plant-starts-operations-in-denmark – Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas have inaugurated the world’s first dynamic green ammonia plant in Ramme, Denmark. This facility adapts to fluctuations in renewable power output, integrating electrolysis and ammonia synthesis to produce 5,000 tons of green ammonia annually, reducing CO₂ emissions by 9,600 tons. The project received DKK 81 million (approximately EUR 11 million) from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP).
- https://www.topsoe.com/press-releases/danish-partnership-receives-support – The Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP) awarded DKK 81 million (approximately EUR 11 million) to a green ammonia project managed by Skovgaard Invest, Vestas, and Haldor Topsoe. The project aims to build a 10 MW green ammonia plant directly coupled to local wind and solar power generation, expected to be operational by 2023, marking the world’s first green ammonia plant of its kind.
- https://www.topsoe.com/press-releases/partnership-sets-out-to-build-worlds-first-commercial-scale-green-ammonia-plant – Skovgaard Invest, supported by Vestas and Haldor Topsoe, announced plans to build the world’s first commercial-scale green ammonia plant with a 10 MW capacity. Located in Western Jutland, Denmark, the plant will produce over 5,000 tons of green ammonia annually from renewable power, preventing 8,200 tons of CO₂ emissions each year. The project aims to demonstrate the viability of electrification beyond the power sector.
- https://www.topsoe.com/press-releases/partnership-breaks-ground-on-first-green-ammonia-project – Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas have commenced construction of a green ammonia plant in Lemvig, Denmark. The plant will produce green ammonia based on renewable power and electrolysis of water, demonstrating how renewable power can be coupled directly to the ammonia plant while accounting for fluctuations in power production. The project received DKK 81 million (approximately EUR 11 million) from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP).
- https://www.topsoe.com/press-arch/worlds-first-of-its-kind-green-ammonia-plant-inaugurated-by-skovgaard-energy-vestas-and-topsoe?hs_amp=true – Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas have inaugurated a green ammonia plant in Ramme, Northwest Jutland, Denmark. The plant demonstrates how renewable power can be coupled directly to an ammonia plant while accounting for fluctuations in power production, making it a cost-effective way of producing green ammonia. The partnership received DKK 81 million (approximately EUR 11 million) in funding from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP).
- https://power-to-x.com/Skovgaard-Energy-commissions-ammonia-power-plant-in-Denmark/ – A Danish consortium, including Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas, has commissioned the world’s first dynamic green ammonia plant in Ramme, Denmark. The plant has an annual production capacity of 5,000 tons of green ammonia and adapts to fluctuations in the electricity output of renewable energy sources by integrating into the electrolysis and ammonia synthesis cycle. This approach reduces the need for expensive storage solutions for green hydrogen and renewable energy.
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