We are happy to share Carlo's new paper "Cost benefit analysis of grid-based electrolytic ammonia production across Canadian provinces," which is published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. In this paper, we compare the costs and benefits of three ammonia production pathways: electrolytic ammonia production, and methane-based ammonia production with and without carbon capture. Social costs of carbon were considered in our analyses, and we concluded that blue ammonia is very cost-effective in reducing carbon emissions, while electrolytic ammonia production is competitive only when low-cost and low-carbon electricity is readily available.
This project was supported in part by the University of Waterloo Trailblazer Fund, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Government of Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).