Sacramento clean fuel technology company Infinium has agreed to work with ammonia-as-energy company Amogy Inc. to explore the commercial potential of commercializing electrofuels and green ammonia.
The companies will study the potential integration of Amogy's ammonia-cracking technology to provide low-cost green hydrogen feedstock as an input to produce Infinium's e-fuels, made with renewable electricity and waste carbon.
“Ingenuity and collaboration are critical to creating decarbonization solutions today,” said Infinium CEO Robert Schuetzle, in a news release. “Our partnership with Amogy will go a long way toward helping advance our ability to rapidly scale the production of ultra-low carbon Infinium e-fuels.”
Infinium uses 100% renewable-sourced electricity along with waste carbon dioxide to make its “electrofuel,” which is a zero-carbon drop-in replacement for petroleum-sourced diesel and jet fuel.
Amogy, based in Brooklyn, New York, has developed ammonia-to-power systems to provide a dense-power fuel for hard-to-abate carbon-emitting sectors like shipping, power generation and heavy-duty transportation.
Both companies have investments from Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Climate Change Fund, Seoul-based SK Trading International Co. Ltd. and Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
Amogy has raised $219 million in funding since its founding in 2020, the most recent being a $150 million round in June led by SK Innovation Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of SK Trading.
“Infinium and Amogy are leaders in their progress and proven solutions, and I believe their partnership will result in the identification of breakthrough opportunities to expand and grow access to cleaner fuels,” said Hyunchol Park, managing director of SK Trading International, in a news release.
Earlier this month, Infinium signed agreements to build one of its energy-to-fuel manufacturing plants in northern Norway.
Infinium has previously announced e-fuels projects in south Texas and West Texas, which have fuel-purchase agreements with Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and American Airlines Group Inc. (Nasdaq: AAL). In December, Infinium received a $75 million equity commitment from Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy to support its Project Roadrunner energy-to-fuel manufacturing plant in West Texas to produce low-carbon aviation fuel.
It is also developing an electrofuel plant in Dunkirk, France. The estimated $571 million French plant will take carbon emissions from an ArcelorMittal SA (NYSE: MT) steel production plant in Northern France.
