ASPIRE – Partners

Winter Ammonia

Ongoing

Funded by UKRI's critical mass programme. Winter-ammonia addresses one of the UK’s most pressing Net Zero challenges: how to store renewable energy across seasons. The project focuses on ammonia as a scalable, flexible energy carrier and storage medium, capable of absorbing excess renewable energy and supporting energy storage at season-long timescales. ASPIRE, the UK’s first flexible e-ammonia plant, will be used and optimised during the project providing valuable input data to the consortium.

Investigators

Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 competition - Stream 1 Phase 2

April 2023 - February 2026

Primary Investigator

STFC is proud to have lead and hosted Phase 2 of the ASPIRE project. In-house engineering teams delivered:

Designed process, mechanical, electrical, and control systems for the flexible synthesis of Aspire MK0.
Built Aspire MK0 demonstrator at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Tested performance and behaviour of the green ammonia system using real-world data.

"We look forward to building on this success as we continue to realise the role that flexible green ammonia production can play for today's industry - transforming curtailed renewable energy into a valuable product, enhancing supply security, delivering high-purity ammonia, simplifying logistics, and supporting decarbonisation. Equally, we are excited to contribute, alongside a growing community of researchers, technology developers and industry leaders to advancing the understanding of the wider role green ammonia could play in future net-zero energy systems as both an energy storage medium and a low-carbon fuel."

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